Dan O'Dowd is the rich tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk

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The current solutions on the market don't scale, some key innovation is still missing for full self-driving. It might be a new kind of machine learning, or something very different, I don't know.

What I know is that it's disgusting to pretend that we are about to have full self-driving, and already market cars with it. Nobody does it more than Tesla, since the company's entire valuation rest on it, even if they are currently technologically behind other companies with partial self-driving features. Tougher regulations are needed to curtail Tesla's snake oil salesmanship, both for the sake of safety and the market.

ARK's projections allocate about 60% of Tesla's market cap to robo taxis. That implies self-driving. But a robo taxi is a different product from full self driving. I wonder where they get the idea that it will come so quickly.

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