Tesla chose to recklessly endanger lives, killing at least 50 people by releasing an unsafe beta test. Their goal was to capture market share from Waymo.
This is the thing that drives me nuts: wantonly ignoring regulations designed to protect consumers, and claiming that it was going to save more people than it hurt, in the long run. Tesla's participation in the market has not and will not make self driving arrive earlier than if they had refrained from participating. All it has done is given them an opportunity to compete for market share, and engage in pump and dump scams by misrepresenting their progress to naive investors.
This is the thing that drives me nuts: wantonly ignoring regulations designed to protect consumers, and claiming that it was going to save more people than it hurt, in the long run. Tesla's participation in the market has not and will not make self driving arrive earlier than if they had refrained from participating. All it has done is given them an opportunity to compete for market share, and engage in pump and dump scams by misrepresenting their progress to naive investors.