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In response to Rawlinson saying "We won't have level 4 or level 5 anytime soon. That's pure fantasy. Nobody will.", Elon said:
There's some semantics to parse here. Rawlinson was chief vehicle engineer for the Model S, not chief engineer of the whole company. JB Straubel led the powertrain/battery engineering, Franz the design. I think Elon's trying to make a point that Rawlinson isn't qualified to make claims about autonomous driving, but typical for Elon it doesn't come out right.
Rawlinson was never chief engineer. He arrived after Model S prototype was made, left before things got tough & was only ever responsible for body engineering, not powertrain, battery, software, production or design.
There's some semantics to parse here. Rawlinson was chief vehicle engineer for the Model S, not chief engineer of the whole company. JB Straubel led the powertrain/battery engineering, Franz the design. I think Elon's trying to make a point that Rawlinson isn't qualified to make claims about autonomous driving, but typical for Elon it doesn't come out right.