Soon it will be undeniable that FSD is the most advanced and safest self-driving system on the planet and the haters just need to accept it. It’s a good thing because it’s literally saving human lives.
You might not like Teslas as a vehicle nor the company itself due to the CEO but the fact is that no other manufacturer offers equally capable self-driving system and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. If you’ve not been following this technology closely they just switched from human code to 100% neural nets and the difference between V11 and V12 cannot be overstated. It’s still not perfect and probably never will be but it’s really good and there’s a good chance it’s already safer driver than the average human. This is all done using only cameras. No radar, no LiDAR.
There’s also rumors going around that Ford is about to licence the FSD software in their own vehicles and others are likely to follow so it will not be just Tesla’s that are using it.
Very good question.
I don’t have any facts to support my guess, but if you want to hear my guess: they will go down more or less the same drain as Ex-Twitter.
Perhaps. The main problem I see with that prediction is that X is privately owned whereas Tesla is publicly traded. Elon can run X however stupidly he wants (some exceptions apply), but Tesla has a legal obligation to conduct business in good faith, and shareholders have shown before that they will stand against Elon when his ideas seem to go against this.
If I try to think from the point of view of that narcissistic CEO:
He is quite able to present visions to (=manipulate) large masses of users, and as well to that bunch of awful-pain-in-the-ass shareholders.
Well, some are haters, and will always be. So what. Some day they are going to adapt. They just have to.
The outcome of it:
He is not going to behave differently just because there are public shareholders. Whether or not they are able to make things different, I don’t know.