Tesla's Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparked Dissent Among Its Engineers

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 24, 2017 at 6:03:56 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Tesla's Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparked Dissent Among Its Engineers
>
>
> Tesla's Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparked Dissent Among Its Engineers
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742?mg=prod/accounts-wsj
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>    A major cause of this conflict has apparently been the way
>    Musk chose to market Autopilot. The decision to refer to
>    Autopilot as a "full self-driving" solution -- language that
>    makes multiple appearances on the company's website,
>    especially during the process of ordering a car -- was the
>    spark for multiple departures, including Sterling Anderson,
>    who was in charge of the Autopilot team during last year's
>    announcement. Anderson left the company two months later, and
>    was hit with a lawsuit from Tesla that alleged breach of
>    contract, employee poaching, and theft of data related to
>    Autopilot, though the suit was eventually settled. A year
>    before that, a lead engineer warned the company that Autopilot
>    wasn't ready to be released shortly before the original
>    rollout. Evan Nakano, the senior system design and
>    architecture engineer at the time, wrote that development of
>    Autopilot was based on "reckless decision making that has
>    potentially put customer lives at risk," according to
>    documents obtained by the WSJ.
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