How much of the Tesla failure to catch up with Waymo in self-driving is because of a Elon-dictated limitation on the tools and technologies they can use? Elon threw out a lot of the "R" part of R&D and said "just develop this approach I chose."
The critiques of Tesla self-driving are not saying it isn't a hard problem, they are the:
* Elon acts like it's an easier problem than it is in terms of constraining how his company approaches it
* Elon ALSO acts like it's an easier problem than it is in terms of his claims about when it will be done, in a way that offers potential harm to purchasers and investors
It's hard to say he's "trying his best" to be honest about the timelines when they've slipped this many times.
The critiques of Tesla self-driving are not saying it isn't a hard problem, they are the:
* Elon acts like it's an easier problem than it is in terms of constraining how his company approaches it
* Elon ALSO acts like it's an easier problem than it is in terms of his claims about when it will be done, in a way that offers potential harm to purchasers and investors
It's hard to say he's "trying his best" to be honest about the timelines when they've slipped this many times.