One of Tesla Inc.’s engineers told California authorities that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk overstated the capability of Autopilot, the company’s driver-assistance system, early this year. “Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality per CJ," Miguel Acosta, chief of the California DMV’s autonomous vehicles branch, wrote in the memo. Tesla raised more than $2 billion two years ago after Musk made several predictions about robotaxis that didn’t materialize. “Tesla is at Level 2 currently," Acosta wrote in the memo in March. “As Tesla is aware, the public’s misunderstanding about the limits of the technology and its misuse can have tragic consequences," Acosta wrote.

Source: Mint May 07, 2021 13:52 UTC