Calling his entire career mediocre is ridiculous

over fears that Musk isn’t taking his role at the firm seriously

None of those links are links to studies, they’re all links to articles. And, as you said, they all come from biased sources. The first two are government websites and the third is an industry website.

That’s a really weak source, literally a screenshot of a Google search. How about linking to one of those “numerous studies” that’s mentioned?

Another major factor is that cars traveling on battery power are much quieter than gas or diesel vehicles

Ah, yes, Teslastans also raves about the Cybertruck. Doesn’t change the fact that Starlink is an unviable scam using sub par hardware, which requires enormous amounts of pollution both in the atmosphere and in orbit.

No it is not. Not only is it not economically viable and never will be, the hardware is shit, needing constant replacements, but the liftoffs pollute like hell, and the satellites pollutes in space.

half his mind working to improve electric vehicles for the masses, some of it working to save social media from bots and a bit more working on taking us to Mars.

It was simply Musk getting mad at someone for pushing back on what he was asking for and punishing the entire team as part of his tantrum.

struggle to get Cs

In all honesty, without the belief you can change the world for the better, you won’t graduate as an engineer.

Young engineers are so setup for drinking the Kool-aid.

My hope is that the people in the company land on their feet.

I want Elon to fail. I don’t want Tesla to fail.

Now you’re missing the point, because what we’re talking about here is choosing between hitting a pedestrian and temporarily crossing the yellow line into unoccupied road space.

Nobody is dying from a car crash at that speed.

Ah, my bad. Please, by all means, ignore the double yellow. It’ll be fine.

I don’t see how this is helping their case. If a driverless car can’t handle a potential hazard without becoming even more of a potential hazard, they shouldn’t be on the streets.

I guess we know how Waymo has decided to solve the trolley problem, huh? Better to possibly kill a minivan full of toddlers that definitely kill a bunch of unicyclers. Stopping and not killing anyone has been deemed an unrealistic possibility, apparently. Got places to be, can’t stop, won’t stop.