Tesla’s recent public image has decreased significantly compared to what it was a few years agoand the truth is that there are several reasons why this happened. The first, in my opinion, is found in the constant sale of smoke in which the company has established itself, more precisely its boss Elon Musk, a person who has already shown us actively and passively that it has a complex relationship with reality.

I had to go back to the newspaper library to remember when Musk first stated that Tesla would reach level 5 autonomous driving in a short period of time. This was in 2016, when Tesla was at level 2, and according to what it stated, such a milestone would occur in about two years, that is, in 2018, its cars would no longer have a steering wheel or pedals, because they would be 100% autonomous. This deadline was not met, but in early 2021 they stated that they would achieve it by the end of that year. We are weeks away from the end of 2023 and Do you know what level of autonomous driving Tesla currently offers? Level 2 indeed.

We also have to accompany this by using misleading terms such as referring to its software as Full Self-Driving, even though we are very far from achieving that state. The only good news in this regard is that barriers are gradually emerging to try to prevent the company from further selling smoke. And the bad news, the worst of several, is that the situation with its Autopilot system It turned out to be much worse than Tesla appeared in the gallery.

Part of what we know about Tesla’s internals is thanks to leakers like Lukasz Krupski, a former employee of the company who leaked a lot of inside information about it, putting the company in a complicated situation. Well, as we can read in The Verge, In an interview with the BBC, Krupski stated that Tesla cars are “experiments on public roads«and that they therefore endanger many people, both their owners and any passerby who crosses their path.

After Krupski was fired from Tesla, among other reasons for taking photos to document safety issues, he leaked much of Tesla’s internal information to the German newspaper Handelsblatt, the reason he was sued by Musk’s company. However, despite the threat it poses and the many personal problems it has caused, he has decided to continue to come forward and publicly expose what is going on in society. Now, of course, it can be expected that the harsh personal sacrifice Krupski made will be taken into account by those who deserve it and acted upon.