"We think we can do self driving in a year" (very unrealistic prediction) versus "we have a working truck prototype" (literally false).
Being an optimist isn't fraud.
Being an optimist isn't fraud.
Also. Who’s paying the drivers? That’s a lot of drivers driving all day. This was never part of the deal as it was supposed to be automated. So whoever is paying the drivers is not doing anything for cheap.
> Musk and Tesla have agreed to settle the charges against them without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations.
He knew he committed securities fraud, and now he is under federal investigation over the Twitter deal.
There is no need to be a Elon apologist, since everyone knows he is a fraudster. That is before I mentioned about the FSD scandals.
Tesla is taking the money people are paying them for FSD and using it to... build an FSD system. They are hiring top talent, developing new ML architectures, developing new training hardware, developing new inference hardware, and overall just spending more money on the problem than any other company.
Having a hard time understanding how spending people's money on the thing you say you're spending it on is "fraud".
By talking to experts? Or even people just vaguely familiar with the field. It was obvious at the time that it would take far far longer than most driverless car companies and the press were saying.
Frankly you don't even need any engineering knowledge to see that. Just go for a drive. There are countless situations that basically require human-level intelligence and nobody would have believed Musk saying he was a year away from that.
> This is something we can do _now_
(Referring to his self-driving truck convoy)