Debate rages over whether semi-autonomous cars are a good idea—even at Elon Musk’s automaker. Shortly after the Tesla CEO boasted last year that his cars would soon come with the capabilty to drive themselves, the head of the company’s Autopilot technology, Sterling Anderson, resigned.
The Wall Street Journal reports (paywall) that Anderson’s replacement spent less than six months at the post before he quit, too. It’s part of a pattern of high turnover that has plagued the Autopilot team, fueled by a concern over “reckless decision-making that has potentially put customer lives at risk,” as one engineer who resigned put it.
Mobileye, the company that supplied the brains behind Autopilot, also parted ways with Tesla last summer, after a high-profile crash killed a driver while the self-driving system was engaged.
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