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Elon Musk Just Now Realizing that Self-driving Cars are a 'Hard Problem'


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Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering when it comes to his company Teslas so-called Full Self-Driving software.

Credit: The Virge

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is finally admitting that he underestimated how difficult it is to develop a safe and reliable self-driving car. To which the entire engineering community rose up as one to say, "No duh."

Or at least that's how it should have happened in a just world. Instead, all the Tesla sycophants and ass-kissers on Twitter told Musk to keep up the good work, that they believed in him, and encouraged him to hurry up and roll out the latest version of his "Full Self-Driving" software that, it's worth pointing out, does not enable a Tesla vehicle to drive itself without input from the driver.

Musk has a long history of over promising and under delivering

Musk has a long history of over promising and under delivering when it comes to his company's so-called "Full Self-Driving" software. He did it in 2018, when he promised that the "long awaited" V9 (Version 9) would begin rolling out in August. He did it again in 2019, proclaiming that "a year from now" there would be "over a million cars with full self-driving, software, everything."

He was back at it again this past weekend, promising that "FSD 9 beta is shipping soon," with an added "I swear!" just in case you had any doubts about his solemnity.

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