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A Song of “Full Self-Driving”

The fallacy of the tech genius.

Facing declining consumer sales, the company’s valuation is based on the idea that Tesla is about to transform the auto industry by turning car ownership into something akin to software-as-a-service. This movement was kickstarted by a DARPA challenge(government intervention for the win) and only after university researchers showed that the sensing paradigm held promise did tech companies pile into the space. The result, according to interviews with nearly a dozen former employees and test drivers, safety officials and other experts, was an uptick in crashes, near misses and other embarrassing mistakes by Tesla vehicles suddenly deprived of a critical sensor.

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