At SpaceX, Tesla, and other companies he hired industry experts.
And proceeded to overrule them with idiotic ideas like “scrap all sensors etc, our self driving cars will drive with image recognition only”. And now most companies with self driving cars in development are miles ahead of Tesla despite starting later.
Did they start later? Where Tesla had an advance was integrating major parts of a self-driving system into actual customer cars and collecting tons of real-world data. The internal research on autonomous cars probably started on most automakers long before Tesla was founded.
And proceeded to overrule them with idiotic ideas like “scrap all sensors etc, our self driving cars will drive with image recognition only”. And now most companies with self driving cars in development are miles ahead of Tesla despite starting later.
Did they start later? Where Tesla had an advance was integrating major parts of a self-driving system into actual customer cars and collecting tons of real-world data. The internal research on autonomous cars probably started on most automakers long before Tesla was founded.