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Biggest news buried at the end. It says that several engineers have quit since October 2016 (including the head of autopilot) when Tesla started selling "fully autonomous driving" hardware upgrade packages. Says the engineers don't agree the hardware is capable of supporting this and that it was ultimately a marketing decision.

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If I were one of those engineers, and didn't believe in the claims being made, I'd personally be quite worried of being held personally liable if the company gets sued in the case of accidental death. Last thing I'd want is my bug being responsible for someone dying.

E.g. I would quit too.

Good thing it would be almost impossible to attach personal liability to an employee of a corporation unless they intentionally designed the system to be unsafe with malicious intent.

Frankly, I would be more worried about someone dying using a system that I had a hand in than whatever effect it might have on my career.

> Last thing I'd want is my bug being responsible for someone dying.

Is exactly what was written above.

In the context of a lawsuit. Which is different from not wanting it for its own sake.

But quitting doesn't retroactively remove your hand from the system if that's your main worry...

A lot of people move jobs especially in LA. Is there a first-hand link to one of these engineers critisizing the systems (not trolling just cannot get past WSJ paywall)

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