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In 2016, Tesla published a video demonstrating one of its vehicles supposedly operating on Full Self-Driving mode completing a short journey without the driver intervening, showcasing the capabilities of its Full Self-Driving software to the world. This was later revealed to be staged, as revealed by Bloomberg, following a deposition from director of the Autopilot programme Ashok Elluswamy.
At the time of Tesla’s acquisition, SolarCity was in severe financial difficulty. Despite this, Musk persuaded the Tesla board to pay $2.6 billion to bring the company into Tesla’s orbit. But Musk once again misled the public at the solar roof launch event. The roofs shown at the event were fake versions of SolarCity’s existing product, hastily assembled after Musk decided that the real roofs that were being installed on customer’s houses were too ugly.
In January 2024 Musk tweeted a video of Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, folding a T-shirt. However, it didn’t take viewers long to notice that a hand is seen in the bottom right corner which appears to be controlling Optimus’ movements.
Musk tweeted a video in November 2019 showing a Cybertruck beating a Ford F-150 in a tug of war. However, the video shows that the Cybertruck received a head start, and that the F-150 was rear wheel drive only. In March 2024, a video showed a Chevrolet Silverado easily beating a Cybertruck in a tug of war.
During the launch event for the Cybertruck in November 2023, Musk claimed that a Cybertruck could beat a Porsche 911 in a quarter mile drag race, whilst towing a Porsche 911. However, the video demonstration showed by Tesla shows the race only covered 1/8th of a mile. In February 2024, YouTube channel ThrottleHouse recreated the drag race over an accurate quarter mile distance. The Porsche 911 easily beat the Cybertruck. Tesla deliberately cut the distance short while giving the impression of a traditional drag race, in order to mislead prospective customers.
Tesla hosted an investor event labelled Autonomy Day to promote the ‘significant progress’ that the company has made with autonomous driving, which took place on 22 April 2019.
According to Walter Isaacson’s authorised biography of Elon Musk, Tesla was in deep financial trouble at the time of Autonomy Day. According to the account, “Night after night, Musk sat upright on the edge of his bed next to Grimes, unable to sleep. Some nights he did not move until dawn. Tesla had survived the surges and storms of 2018, but it needed to raise another round of financing to keep operating, and the short-sellers were still circling like vultures. In March 2019, he re-entered crisis-drama mode. “We have to raise money or we’re fucked,” he said to Grimes one dawn. He needed to come up with a grand idea that would turn the narrative around and convince investors that Tesla would become the most valuable car company. One night he left the light on and just stared into space silently. “Every couple of hours I would wake up, and he was just still sitting there, in the thinking man statue pose, just completely silent on the edge of the bed,” Grimes says. When she woke up that morning, he said to her, “I solved it.” The solution, he explained, was for Tesla to host an investor relations presentation, dubbed “Autonomy Investor Day”, where investors and the press would get a demonstration of how Tesla was building a car that could drive itself.”
To an audience of investors, Elon stated that “it’s financially insane to buy anything other than a Tesla [as] they will be like owning a horse in three years… if you buy a car that does not have the hardware necessary for Full Self-Driving it [would be] like buying a horse”.
Elon also claimed that “next year for sure we will have a million robotaxis on the road”
Claimed that Tesla owners would earn $30,000 from robotaxis.
Summarising the investor presentation, Elon claimed that Tesla vehicles are now “appreciating assets” and said that they should be worth $100,000 to $200,000 with the Full Self-Driving package.
According to Musk, the robotaxi was predicted to cost approximately 18 cents per mile, over 3 times cheaper than the average US consumer vehicle.
Five years on from Autonomy Day, the claims made by Elon Musk have failed to materialise.
In 2016, the first known US fatality involving Tesla’s self-driving systems occurred in Florida. On 7 May 2016, Joshua Brown’s Model S crashed into a turning tractor-trailer, severing the roof of the vehicle and killing Brown. The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation into the crash found that Brown was not consistently applying force to the steering wheel, used by the car to confirm driver attention.
Tesla’s Director of Autopilot, Ashok Elluswamy, admitted under oath that the driver monitoring system could be deceived in a July 2022 deposition.
On 13 December 2023, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the recall of over two million Tesla vehicles, stating that Tesla’s system for monitoring drivers’ attention when operating its self-driving software “may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse” and therefore could increase the “risk of collision”, almost two years after Elluswamy’s deposition.
In May 2024, NHTSA publicly stated that it was dissatisfied with Tesla’s recall of the driver monitoring system, ordering Tesla to provide further information to the regulator about the steps it was taking to ensure driver attention. The regulator also described Tesla’s driver monitoring system as “weak” and that Tesla’s approach was an “outlier” compared to its Level 2 peers.
The Dawn Project has released safety test videos showing that a self-driving Tesla’s driver monitoring system will fail to detect when a driver texts, reads, watches movies or even falls asleep at the wheel. The car also does not recognise when a teddy bear, unicorn, or nothing at all is in the driver’s seat.
In tests, Tesla’s driver monitoring system compared poorly to GM’s SuperCruise, and Ford’s BlueCruise driver monitoring systems.
Tesla only counts crashes as those in which airbags were deployed, counting only serious crashes, whereas the comparative figure it uses for the US average counts all crashes, which means the number is far greater. Tesla compares apples with oranges, and uses this deception to mislead consumers and regulators to claim that their vehicles are far more safe than they really are.
A recent judgment of a Palm Beach Florida court found “reasonable evidence” that Musk and other Tesla executives knew the company’s self-driving technology was defective but allowed the cars on the public road anyway. The county circuit court found evidence that Tesla had “engaged in a marketing strategy that painted the products as autonomous” and that Musk’s public statements about the technology “had a significant effect on the belief about the capabilities of the products”.
In 2021, NHTSA issued a Standing General Order (the General Order) requiring identified manufacturers and operators to report to the agency certain crashes involving vehicles equipped with automated driving systems or SAE Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems.
To date, Tesla has reported over 1,350 crashes resulting in 39 fatalities. By contrast, the next highest number of collisions reported by another manufacturer is Honda with just over 100.
As Tesla only counts airbag crashes when calculating the safety of its self-driving software, they overstate the safety of Autopilot by a factor of 5. NHTSA revealed in April 2024 that airbags are only deployed in approximately 18% of police-reported incidents.
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is not an Advanced Driver Assistance System. Full Self-Driving does not assist the driver of the car. To drive a car the driver must from time to time turn the steering wheel and apply pressure to the brakes, otherwise the “driver” isn’t driving at all; but turning the steering wheel or touching the brakes in an FSD Tesla car, actually switches off Full Self-Driving.
Elon Musk has outwardly stated on many occasions that Tesla Full Self-Driving functions as an autonomous vehicle, stating that users “aren’t driving at all” when using FSD. Despite this, Tesla claims that FSD is only a Level 2 system.
Unlike Level 4 and 5 systems, Tesla is able to mark vital information relating to crashes involving its self-driving software as confidential business information in reporting to regulators, due to the less restrictive requirements for Level 2 manufacturers.
Despite outwardly claiming that Full Self-Driving functions autonomously, Tesla says to regulators that their system is only an Advanced Driver Assistance System.
In spite of Musk’s claims that autonomy is just around the corner and that FSD functions autonomously, Tesla’s fine print contains the disclaimer that “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is a hands-on feature that requires you to pay attention to the road at all times. Keep your hands on the steering yoke (or steering wheel) at all times, be mindful of road conditions and surrounding traffic, pay attention to pedestrians and cyclists, and always be prepared to take immediate action (especially around blind corners, crossing intersections, and in narrow driving situations). Failure to follow these instructions could cause damage, serious injury or death”
A lawsuit filed in April 2019 by Walter Huang’s wife and family alleged that Tesla’s deceptive marketing of Autopilot’s capabilities contributed to Huang’s death:
“The Decedent reasonably believed the 2017 Tesla Model X vehicle was safer than a human-operated vehicle because of Defendant’s claimed technical superiority regarding the vehicle’s autopilot system”.
In April 2024, Tesla’s official profile claimed that FSD could interpret the hand gestures of other road users, which was quickly debunked by FSD testers.
As a Level 2 system, FSD requires a fully attentive driver who is ready to intervene at a moment’s notice. Yet, in April 2024 Tesla’s official Twitter profile endorsed the use of FSD taking a comatose man to hospital when he was inattentive.
The California DMV is pursuing legal action against Tesla for their false and misleading marketing of its self-driving software.
In November 2024, NHTSA published a letter it had sent to Tesla in May 2024 criticizing Tesla’s representation of Full Self-Driving as an autonomous vehicle rather than a Level 2 ADAS vehicle.
NHTSA implored Tesla to “revisit its communications to assure that its messaging is consistent with the statements made in its user instructions and appropriate to the level of capability deployed to the public roads”, after identifying seven misleading posts from Tesla.
When people are injured at the hands of Tesla’s self-driving software, Tesla says that the driver should have been paying attention despite Musk’s endless pronouncements that FSD functions autonomously.
In August 2023, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation into 16 crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving software with emergency vehicles.
A number of fatal crashes have occurred when Tesla’s self-driving software collided with the rear end of a motorcycle.
In January 2023, The Intercept published surveillance footage of Tesla Full Self-Driving causing a pile-up on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge.
Tests have shown that Tesla’s self-driving software will run down a child-sized mannequin in the road.
Tesla Full Self-Driving will repeatedly drive around stopped school buses with their stop sign arm extended and lights flashing, and fails to obey school zone speed limits.
Tillman Mitchell, 17, was severely injured when a Tesla in Autopilot mode hit him at 45mph as he exited a school bus in North Carolina.
Tesla Full Self-Driving will repeatedly ignore and drive past ‘Do Not Enter’ and ‘Road Closed’ signs.
The owner of a Tesla in Ohio crashed after his self-driving Tesla failed to register a train in its path, causing the driver to swerve into a pole to avoid hitting the train.
In June 2022, one Beta tester reported that FSD attempted to steer into the path of a tram.
Tesla Full Self-Driving also nearly killed our Founder, Dan O’Dowd, when it swerved into the path of an oncoming BMW, giving the driver less than a second to react and avoid a head-on collision.
Drivers have reported a litany of defects associated with Tesla’s self-driving software, demonstrating the severe defects in Tesla’s self-driving software.
For ten years, Elon Musk has promised that Tesla will achieve autonomy next year. To date, Tesla has failed to develop a self-driving vehicle.
Elon said in 2016 that Tesla vehicles could drive autonomously with greater safety than a person.
Speaking with a journalist from at the New York Times Dealbook Summit in December 2023, Elon claimed that FSD was four times safer than driving manually.
During an interview, Elon admitted that achieving Full Self-Driving is “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero”.
Elon said that there had been “No accidents” using Full Self-Driving despite an active NHTSA standing general order disproving this.
Despite failing to produce a self-driving car on schedule, Elon describes each version of Full Self-Driving as mind-blowing.
In an interview with Lex Fridman, Elon Musk said that solving self-driving was “way harder” than he originally thought.
As part of Musk’s broader claim made at Autonomy Day that Tesla vehicles should be considered as appreciating assets, he tweeted in 2020 that the price of the Full Self-Driving package “will continue to rise as the software gets closer to full self-driving capability with regulatory approval. It that point, the value of FSD is probably somewhere in excess of $100,000”.
Since Tesla announced that the Full Self-Driving package would rise to $15,000, the price has since fallen in spite of Musk’s claim that it would continue to rise as the software improved. Now, the price for purchasing FSD is $12,000, and a subscription costs as little as $99 per month.
Musk said in 2014 that Tesla’s self-driving cars “will be a factor of 10 safer than a person [at the wheel] in a six-year time frame”.
“We’re going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years”, Elon told an interviewer in 2015.
Elon Musk wrote on Twitter in 2020 that the functionality of Full Self-Driving was “looking good” to be achieved by the end of the year, and that regulatory approval was the only thing holding Tesla back.
“Functionality still looking good for this year. Regulatory approval is the big unknown”, he tweeted.
In an interview with Mathias Döpfner in December 2020, Elon said that he was “extremely confident that Tesla will have level five next year, extremely confident, 100%.”
In Tesla’s Q4 2021 Earnings Call, Elon said that he would be “extremely shocked” if Tesla didn’t develop FSD to be “safer than a human” by the end of the year.
One of the main defences Tesla enthusiasts have clung to in the past to justify Tesla Full Self-Driving’s poor performance is claiming that the software is in the ‘beta’ phase of development. This argument was used frequently until March 2023, when Tesla announced that Full Self-Driving (Beta) was set to be replaced with Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
Tesla has been misusing the term “beta” to justify selling defective Full Self-Driving software to consumers for use on public roads.
Robotaxi regulators say Tesla hasn’t contacted them about plans from Elon Musk to launch a robotaxi.
Tesla has failed to implement safety recommendations from Federal regulators after fatal collisions.
Elon Musk and his fans have abused federal regulators who oversee Tesla’s self-driving software, intimidating Missy Cummings and launching abusive insults at her due to her criticism of Tesla.
The NTSB investigation into the first self-driving fatality in 2016, which resulted in the death of Joshua Brown, determined that the fatal collision was caused by Brown’s inattentiveness and overreliance on Autopilot. It further notes that Brown operated the software “in ways inconsistent with guidance and warnings from the manufacturer”. Autopilot “did not identify the truck crossing the car’s path or recognize the impending crash”, it did not alert the driver, nor apply the emergency brakes.
The investigation determined that the driver’s lack of attention and overreliance on Autopilot caused the crash, alongside Autopilot’s permittance of said inattention. They further determined that the driver used Autopilot “in ways inconsistent” with Tesla’s warnings, similar to the conclusion in the Joshua Brown investigation.
The NTSB investigation concluded that the Autopilot system’s limitations drove the car into a highway gore area, and that the driver’s inattentiveness, likely due to Huang playing a game on his phone, also contributed to the accident. The NTSB stated that Tesla’s Autopilot system did not provide an effective means of monitoring the driver’s level of engagement. The report further stated that the crash shared similarities with the other crashes subject to NTSB investigation, noting that in each crash the driver was not alerted to the car’s impending collision, and the AEB system did not activate the brakes because Tesla’s systems are not designed or tested to operate consistently at speeds over 50mph. The report further claims that Tesla’s system is not trained to recognise objects such as crash attenuators, which the vehicle collided with.
In 2016, Elon Musk predicted that Tesla FSD would be able to drive autonomously between Los Angeles and New York by 2018, so that customers could summon their Tesla from the other side of the country
This vision of autonomous summoning was underpinned by Tesla’s “snake charger”, an autonomous charging port which would enable charging without the need for a human in the car, which was first revealed in 2015. The charger has never come to fruition.
In 2013, Elon Musk showed off Tesla’s battery-swapping technology, which can remove and replace the drained battery pack of a Model S with a fully charged one in just 90 seconds.
Two years later, Tesla’s battery-swapping plan wasn’t quite working out. Despite inviting Model S owners to trial battery swapping for free, Tesla customers failed to take to the charging solution. 54% said they were uninterested in Tesla’s battery swap stations and preferred faster cable charging instead.
Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, was first revealed in August 2021 when a human in a costume appeared on stage and danced in front of the audience.
At Tesla’s AI day in October 2022, Optimus had to be pushed on stage by a group of engineers. After over a year of development, Optimus couldn’t even walk.
Optimus could propel Tesla to a valuation of 25 trillion dollars, Musk claimed in 2024.
According to Elon, one of the most unique things about Optimus is the fact that it uses the same core technology that lets Tesla’s cars drive themselves while supervised – as its core software.
During a recent earnings call, Musk proclaimed that – once finalised – Optimus would solve poverty and engender a future of abundance, one in which anyone could have anything they desired: ““This means a future of abundance,” he said. “A future where there is no poverty. Where people … You can have whatever you want”
Tweeted that just as my money was the first in, it will be the last out of Tesla.
In 2018, Musk joked that Tesla had gone bankrupt as an April Fool’s Day prank.
Also in 2018, Musk claimed that he had the money to take Tesla private, resulting in the SEC seeking enforcement action for market manipulation after it turned out he did not.
“Tesla stock price is too high imo,” Musk wrote in a tweet
Elon Musk’s exhorting to investors to keep the faith in Tesla carries little weight while he continues to secretly dump his own shares into the market
CEO of investment firm Cathie Wood has consistently set ambitious price targets for Tesla, claiming that Tesla’s robotaxi business will be worth billions of dollars in revenue in the near future. She has claimed that Tesla will be worth over $2,000 per-share due to its autonomous driving software, though her ambitious targets have failed to materialise. Her failed predictions have seen her become one of the largest destroyers of investors’ wealth.
Elon has claimed that Tesla should be considered as an “AI/robotics” company, in order to convince investors that Tesla should be valued as a technology company, rather than an automotive business.
However, the company’s profit margin remains dependent on its car business, and in particular the regulatory credits it receives for the sale of EVs. In Q2 2024, Tesla sold $890 million in credits in the second quarter, up from $282 million a year earlier.
In 2012, Elon claimed that Tesla would not need to raise any more capital again.
Tesla has since received multiple injections of capital, including raising $2bn in 2014 to finance the expansion of Tesla’s manufacturing operations and again raising $738m in 2015 to ramp Model X production.
In 2020, Tesla raised a further $5bn after unveiling its biggest program of new share sales as a public company.
Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, according to a source who spoke with Reuters. Tesla later became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments.
Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.
Tesla has a long history of suppressing whistleblowers, silencing them to avoid revealing critical safety information.
Tesla has continually faced lawsuits relating to racism and racial discrimination at its factories. In 2024 Tesla was forced to settle a lawsuit with factory worker Owen Diaz amidst horrific allegations of widespread racism at the factory. The company is also being sued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the California Civil Rights Department over this racial abuse.
A Tesla software hacker found an ‘Elon Mode’ driving feature in the code base for Full Self-Driving that allowed Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving to operate without any driver monitoring. Designed specifically for Elon to illegally remove the nags and driver monitoring settings to ensure drivers are paying attention, ‘Elon Mode’ was discovered by hacker and code analyst @greentheonly.
In 2015, Isaacson reports that Musk would drive from his home in Bel Air to SpaceX headquarters near LAX and wanted his Tesla to be able to complete the trip using the company’s not-quite-functional Autopilot system. One lane on the 405 Freeway caused Musk’s Tesla trouble because the lane markers were too faded. Musk’s staff hatched a plan to sneak out onto the freeway at 3 a.m. to repaint the lanes themselves until they found a Musk fan in a governmental “transportation department” (it’s not specified which one) who helped arrange for the lanes to be repainted in exchange for a tour of SpaceX.
In summer 2024, Business Insider revealed that Tesla prioritised certain VIP vehicles, including Elon himself and Tesla influencers, when improving FSD’s performance. Tesla software developers prioritised the routes and commutes of VIPs such as Elon to address issues they persistently experienced.
In the absence of verifiable and reliable information from Tesla regarding the safety of Full Self-Driving, and in the absence of published miles-per-disengagement figures, the FSD Community Tracker provides crowdsourced information on each version of FSD showing the miles-per-intervention and other data.
Tesla stated that “If you purchased Full Self-Driving capability and have Autopilot computer 2.0 or 2.5, you are eligible for a complimentary upgrade to FSD computer.”
At Autonomy Day, Elon Musk claimed that all Tesla vehicles produced in 2019 had all the hardware necessary for autonomous driving.
Despite saying in 2019 that customers who had bought a Tesla vehicle would not require any hardware upgrades for their Tesla to become autonomy, Tesla commenced rolling out Hardware 4 in March 2023.
In 2023, Musk told Lex Fridman that Tesla had forgotten to include certain fundamental features in HW3, which would be remedied in Hardware 4.
In June 2024, Elon Musk officially announced Hardware 5, which he claimed would apparently improve performance on HW4 by a factor of 10.
Tesla has refused to use Lidar in developing its self-driving software because it was too expensive
Tesla announced a deal with car rental company Hertz in which Hertz agreed to order 100,000 vehicles from Tesla. Hertz’s rental fleet would comprise 20% Tesla vehicles, and was estimated to generate $4.2 billion of revenue for Tesla.
The deal with Hertz helped propel Tesla’s market cap beyond $1 trillion for the first time. Tesla’s stock price rose by 13% in one day of trading, finishing the day at $1,024.86, the highest price the stock has reached.
By early 2024 it was clear the massive bet on electrification was a catastrophe. Musk had slashed Tesla prices by as much as 30%, sending the value of Hertz’s EVs plummeting.
By 2024, Hertz began selling its Tesla fleet at cut prices, citing high maintenance costs and limited consumer demand. In January 2024, it announced that it would sell 20,000 of its Tesla fleet.
In March 2024, Hertz replaced CEO Stephen Scherr who had overseen the disastrous Tesla deal.
Notorious Tesla Full Self-Driving tester Chuck Cook has been testing the performance of each version of FSD on his famous unprotected left turn since the launch of the FSD Beta programme. Chuck tests each version of FSD at his UPL in Florida, which is considered in the Tesla community as the bellwether of the performance of each software update.The turn crosses three-lane traffic before having to wait in a median before joining the adjoining cross-traffic.
Chuck’s videos are regularly posted to YouTube upon the release of a new version of FSD. One of the videos he posted tested the range of Tesla’s cameras, which are mounted in the B-pillar of the vehicle. Chuck’s UPL exposes the limited ability of Tesla’s B-Pillar cameras due to the fast moving cross-traffic.
Despite years of testing, Chuck still fails to complete the UPL and constantly has to disengage to avoid being T-Boned by oncoming cross-traffic.
After years of Chuck posting videos of FSD failing to complete his left turn, Tesla decided to send hoards of testing vehicles to his turn to collect data and to improve FSD’s performance at handling unprotected turns with cross traffic. Tesla even cited Chuck Cook’s turn in the release notes for FSD v10.13
Despite years of near-misses and narrowly avoiding collisions, Chuck still praises FSD.
When first revealed in 2019, Elon Musk claimed that the price of the Cybertruck would start at $39,900. By the time it was released to customers, the lowest price offered was $60,900.
Elon has consistently claimed that the Cybertruck would be military-grade in its toughness and durability, and would be bulletproof. During its unveil, however, its window embarrassingly shattered when demonstrating its armoured glass windows.
Its striking design and steel panels and parts led to a manufacturing disaster when it came to producing the Cybertruck. Users have observed a litany of defects with their Cybertrucks, which have been recalled numerous times by regulators due to potentially lethal design flaws.
Despite allowing consumers to pre-order their Cybertrucks with FSD, Tesla has failed to install Full Self-Driving on the Cybertruck, which Musk has said will become available for those who paid for the FSD package soon.
Elon has repeatedly offered to fight Mark Zuckerberg.
During a livestreamed demonstration of FSD v12, Elon travelled to Mark Zuckerberg’s house while using FSD. Embarrassingly, he had to disengage FSD after it attempted to run through a red light while en route.
Compared Justin Trudeau to Hitler.
Called the US President a “Damp Sock Puppet”
Compared Bill Gates to a pregnant man
Called a rescuer a “Pedo” for refusing his offer of help
In 2015 Autopilot Firmware Manager Jamie Carlson left Tesla to join Apple after only two years leading the Autopilot division.
The Director of Autopilot Programs, Sterling Anderson, left Tesla in 2017 after 2 years and 1 month of work with the company. Tesla subsequently sued Anderson alleging that he had poached Tesla employees to join Anderson’s self-driving start-up.
Vice President of Autopilot Software, Chris Lattner, who was positioned as Anderson’s replacement, left in 2017, only 6 months after being hired. Lattner was the third Autopilot executive to leave Tesla in a period of seven months.
After Musk hired and fired a string of Directors to head up the Autopilot team, Tesla hired Open AI founding member Andrej Karpathy to lead its self-driving development efforts in June 2017. The move generated major hype in the Tesla community, who saw Karpathy’s AI experience as the missing piece of Tesla’s autonomy puzzle. After five years of failing to solve autonomy, Karpathy took a Sabbatical in March 2022 before subsequently leaving Tesla permanently July 2022.
Tesla introduced Autowipers in 2018, yet has failed to successfully implement this technology for the past six years. In 2023 Musk was even forced to apologize after Tesla owners voiced complaints about the wipers’ failures.
On August 2, 2006, Elon Musk published “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me).
On July 20, 2016, ten years after the publication of the Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan, Elon Musk published “Master Plan, Part Deux.”
At the end he sums up.
“So, in short, Master Plan, Part Deux is:
- Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage
- Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments
- Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning
- Enable your car to make money for you when you aren’t using it.”
In March 2023, Elon announced the third part of his company’s ‘Master Plan,’ outlining plans for a ‘fully sustainable earth.’ The announcement was made during an Investor Day event at the Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.
Elon’s false promises and missed goals from his Master Plans show why investors should not believe a single word he says.
Tesla is not even close to achieving any of the goals laid out in the Master Plan Part II.