I can't imagine how a meeting would go if an engineer has to explain to Musk that Full Self-Driving will take a long long time, way longer than it will take him to buy another company.
Elon's sabotage efforts go back to the original EyeQ3 autopilot system from Mobileye. Elon had his people hack the system and push it's capabilities beyond it's safe design constraints, which led to Mobileye terminating it's contract with Tesla, following the death of Joshua Brown.
If Tesla had simply played nice with Mobileye in the first place they would have saved themselves so much trouble.
I expect car sensors will grow in much the same way as sensors used in airliners, and that industry ensures _everything_ is redundant so one sensor failure domain can't compromise the entire vehicle.
Might want to not underline _everything_.
> Boeing admitted MCAS played a role in both accidents, when it acted on false data from a single angle of attack (AoA) sensor. [1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...