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theadvancedapes  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tesla basically just ignited the driverless car era

I can agree with most of that. But I think people conceive of Musk in a saint-like way because he is pushing boundaries that many people in the 60s and 70s thought we would have conquered by now (e.g. Mars, electric vehicles, etc). Of course, Musk alone can't change the way global capitalism functions, he is playing within a pre-defined structure. However, even if I am thought of as naive, I will take Musk at his word when he stated that his motive is to attempt to push the car industry in the direction of clean energy faster than it otherwise would have...