In Elon Take the Wheel, the journalist investigates Tesla’s sweeping claims about its self-driving automotive technology.
What does Tesla CEO Elon Musk say about the technology’s safety record?
Musk has been claiming that Tesla’s driving automation systems are safer than humans more or less since the first crashes on Autopilot started being reported in 2016.
But if the safety claim is as blatantly deceptive as other claims Musk has been peddling for years, then those lost lives aren’t justified at all, are they?
The self-driving car is a well-established science fiction trope, and the auto industry has held it out going back a century.