alt Hacker News> I mean sure you can say that the timelines did slip a lot but that doesn’t really have anything to with the rest that is insinuated here.
No. Not at all. This isn't "timelines slip". This is Musk saying, and I quote, "Self driving is a solved problem. We are just tuning the details." in 2016, and in 2021, "Right now our highest priority is working on solving the problem."
Somewhere along the line, it apparently got "unsolved".
"Timelines slipped" is far too generous for someone who, whenever Tesla is facing bad press, will imply that a new FSD release coming in 6 months, 3 months, a month, will solve all the issues plaguing it so far. Repeatedly. Those aren't real timelines.
Hell, even Tesla has had to add comments to investor and securities documents saying that "Musk's statements are aspirational and do not always reflect engineering realities."
I don’t see how this is connected to the point at hand here.
I think taking time to make sure the system works is the right call. Delaying it is the right call. Not publishing something because you had a different impression previously, just because, is the right call.
I think it integrity to delay a product even when your investors might get angry. Is it a winning strategy at wallstreet? No, probably not.
But what is the argument here „Musk bad“ because he delays a product because it’s not ready?
I think doing the due diligence is required here. Musk argument „it’s solved“ could even be argued by „look at Waymo“ they are doing it, aren’t they?
Tesla is aiming for more than that though. And as it is in product development sometimes, sometimes your don’t know what you don‘t know. Because why do you want to focus on chains guarding parkingspots, your cameras aren’t able to see, when your car can’t even drive through the city.
This is such a big thing to solve and 100% is impossible given some definitions.
Back to the article, I think delaying for safety is the right call, and that is also what the article says. It’s just that the article is in bad faith, as most of the arguments here are.
You probably would turn around and slam Musk for a System that obviously problematic as the alternative and until then it’s saying that he delays.
And if it were obviously problematic I think it would be much louder than just an article from a website that is know for having a biased view at things.