Just days after Musk appeared and spoke strongly in favour of him at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania [1]. These are interesting times and people make very strange bed follows.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/style/elon-musk-donald-tr...

Then again, can we trust a word the man is saying? It all feels like shallow pandering. Plus, it may be worth going through the entire event at the Detroit Economic Club [2] to check the quote more clearly as at least one source quotes him as referencing PRC car automation with that statement, while expressing some general personal scepticism of autonomous driving [3].

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km-gQhP5fnw

[3]: https://qz.com/donald-trump-self-driving-cars-avs-musk-tesla...