Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the abilities of Tesla’s driver-assistance system Autopilot, even dictating the opening text that claimed the company’s car drove itself, according to internal emails viewed by Bloomberg.
Musk wrote to Tesla’s Autopilot team after 2am California time in October 2016 to emphasise the importance of a demonstration drive to promote the system, which the CEO made a splashy announcement about a week later. In an October 19 call with reporters and a blog post, Tesla said all its cars from that day forward would ship with the hardware necessary for full self-driving capability.
“I will be telling the world this is what the car will be able to do,” Musk continued, “not that it can do this upon receipt.” Musk and Tesla — which disbanded its media relations department roughly three years ago — didn’t respond to requests for comment.Under the subject line “The Absolute Priority,” Musk wrote in his October 11 2016 email that he had canceled his obligations for the upcoming weekend to work with the Autopilot team on both Saturday and Sunday. He said everyone would be required to write a daily log of what they did to contribute to the success of the demo, and that he would read them personally.
The almost four-minute-long video Musk shared in a tweet later that day opens with the text he asked for: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.”Paint It Black “The intent of the video was not to accurately portray what was available for customers in 2016,” Elluswamy said.Reuters was first to report on the deposition earlier this week. Elluswamy declined to comment.Tesla and Musk didn’t disclose when releasing the video that engineers had created a three-dimensional digital map for the route the Model X took, Elluswamy said during his deposition.
Last year, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began publicly releasing data on crashes involving automated driver-assistance systems, which the agency ordered automakers to self-report. While Tesla reported most such collisions, the regulator cautioned the data was too limited to draw any conclusions about safety.
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