Elon Musk oversaw video that exaggerated Tesla self-driving capabilities
Inc.’s driver-assistance system Autopilot, even dictating the opening text that claimed the company’s car drove itself, according to internal emails viewed by Bloomberg.
“I will be telling the world that this is what the car *will* be able to do,” Musk continued, “not that it can do this upon receipt.” Musk and Tesla — which disbanded its media relations department roughly three years ago — didn’t respond to requests for comment.Under the subject line “The Absolute Priority,” Musk wrote in his Oct. 11, 2016, email that he had canceled his obligations for the upcoming weekend to work with the Autopilot team on both Saturday and Sunday. He said everyone would be required to write a daily log of what they did to contribute to the success of the demo, and that he would read them personally.
The almost four-minute-long video that Musk shared in a tweet later that day opens with the text he asked for: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.”— and The Rolling Stones’"Paint It Black" begins to play. The engineer keeps his hands off the steering wheel as the car pulls forward from a driveway, turns left and travels to Tesla’s former headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
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