{"id":2983,"date":"2022-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/what-can-we-learn-from-a-new-documentary-on-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:42:00","slug":"what-can-we-learn-from-a-new-documentary-on-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/what-can-we-learn-from-a-new-documentary-on-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"What can we learn from a new documentary on Elon Musk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times\/FX documentary focuses on the deadly disconnect between the Tesla CEO&rsquo;s promises for Autopilot self-driving tech and its capability<\/p>\n<p>You could be forgiven for believing that we&rsquo;ve already achieved the era of autonomous vehicles. Tesla, the electric car manufacturer run by Elon Musk, refers to a version of its Autopilot software as &ldquo;Full Self Driving&rdquo;. The company released a (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/06\/technology\/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html\">misleadingly edited<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/videos\/autopilot-self-driving-hardware-neighborhood-long\">video<\/a> of an autonomous vehicle navigating city streets, its drivers&rsquo; hands on their lap &ndash; a style replicated by enthusiasts. Musk has repeatedly assured in speeches and interviews that autonomous vehicles were one to two years away &ndash; or, as he put it in 2015, a &ldquo;solved problem&rdquo; because &ldquo;we know what to do and we&rsquo;ll be there in a few years.&rdquo; But the existing Autopilot technology has not yet realized those promises and, as a new New York Times documentary illustrates, the gap in expectation and reality has led to several deadly crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk&rsquo;s Crash Course, the latest installment in the Times&rsquo;s deal with FX on Hulu, is not a documentary on Elon Musk, per se. The 75-minute film from producer and director Emma Schwartz focuses specifically on Autopilot, which Musk announced in 2014 and has long billed as the key to an imminent, but as yet unreached, future of self-driving cars. As Musk, the richest man in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/17\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-bot-tesla\">mulls taking over Twitter<\/a>, the film redirects attention to longstanding problems at the company arguably most associated with his name and leadership. Through interviews with several former Tesla employees and federal regulators, the film argues that Musk oversold the capability of Autopilot, which Tesla first deployed in 2015, and dangerously lulled consumers into a false sense of security with promises of full self-driving.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2022\/may\/17\/elon-musk-crash-course-documentary-tesla\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times\/FX documentary focuses on the deadly disconnect between the Tesla CEO&rsquo;s promises for Autopilot self-driving tech and its capability You could be forgiven for believing that we&rsquo;ve already achieved the era of autonomous vehicles. 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