Tesla cars don’t kill people — journalists do.
Tech titan Elon Musk accused reporters of “killing people” with their negative coverage of recent crashes by Tesla cars that were in autopilot mode.
That’s because Tesla’s self-driving technology — which got a boost Wednesday with a new, eight-camera, ultrasonic-and-radar hardware package that will be standard on all Teslas from now on — is actually safer than humans handling the wheel, Musk claimed.
“You need to think carefully about this,” Musk testily told reporters on a late-Wednesday conference call after announcing the new tech. “Because if, in writing some article that’s negative, you effectively dissuade people from using an autonomous vehicle, you’re killing people.” – READ MORE
