Deaths In January 2024

However, regulators will probably not allow full autonomy for probably, at least one to three years after that. One of their central pitches was that they were outdated because driverless cars were right around the corner, and in some of those cities they had success in convincing people to vote against improvements to their own mobility and ultimately keep themselves trapped in cars. I was like, guys, like, you’re getting taken for a ride here, right? In short, we’re pursuing a model of green transition - if it can even be called that - that’s maximally resource and capital intensive not because it’s the best way to address the problem or delivery a better quality of life for people, but because it’s what works best for billionaires like Musk and his capitalist buddies. But that’s not the full story. It’s pretty simple. Like Niedermeyer observed, Tesla’s valuation became detached from reality when Musk started making a bunch of outlandish promises - and Cherry Charm Autopilot and Full Self-Driving were central to them. Regardless of how stupid the Hyperloop proposal was, they were ready to buy into it - just like Alissa Walker described when Musk was showing off the first Boring Company tunnel.