He also promoted, and named it autopilot. Which could at least be fraud, and if you or I or any other non-billionaire sold something similarly misrepresented, we’d be liable for the deaths and fraud.
I’d also say irrespective of whether or not he designed, built or engineered any of the cars he is still accountable for what happens with those cars.
The person on top is accountable for it all. It may not be his fault someone could be sloppy in their work and he is still accountable for it.
The managers who let things slide, the CEO is accountable. If these managers hired people not up to the task, the manager is responsible & accountable for those staff and the CEO is responsible and accountable for anything the managers & staff do.
If I as a CEO had an accountant not paying the right taxes, the accountant may be at fault and lose his job but it’s still my responsibility and accountability those taxes are paid.
There is no world where CEO isn’t accountable for the actions of the company. (In theory…)
Unfortunately we live in a world where the CEO’s often have no consequences for the actions of their companies and the existing laws and structures to hold them to account are insufficient.
He’s the one who sets company culture as CEO, so the “move fast and break things” that got that lady stuck in her car while she drowned is his fault, and it will get a whole lot more killed when they actually enable that autopilot of theirs on the cars.
He has hurt plenty of people though.
People have DIED because his cars are shit & he lied about what they can actually do.
He didn’t design, engineer, or build those. You give him too much credit. His input likely amounted to “make it cheaper and raise the price”
Arguably he made Tesla’s autopilot shittier by removing LIDAR because it was too expensive.
He also promoted, and named it autopilot. Which could at least be fraud, and if you or I or any other non-billionaire sold something similarly misrepresented, we’d be liable for the deaths and fraud.
Tesla has never had LIDAR. They used to have radar and ultrasonic sensors.
I’m speculating but it seems plausible to also make decisions like start selling the cars even though the engineers are saying they are not ready yet.
I’d also say irrespective of whether or not he designed, built or engineered any of the cars he is still accountable for what happens with those cars.
The person on top is accountable for it all. It may not be his fault someone could be sloppy in their work and he is still accountable for it.
The managers who let things slide, the CEO is accountable. If these managers hired people not up to the task, the manager is responsible & accountable for those staff and the CEO is responsible and accountable for anything the managers & staff do.
If I as a CEO had an accountant not paying the right taxes, the accountant may be at fault and lose his job but it’s still my responsibility and accountability those taxes are paid.
There is no world where CEO isn’t accountable for the actions of the company. (In theory…)
Unfortunately we live in a world where the CEO’s often have no consequences for the actions of their companies and the existing laws and structures to hold them to account are insufficient.
He’s the one who sets company culture as CEO, so the “move fast and break things” that got that lady stuck in her car while she drowned is his fault, and it will get a whole lot more killed when they actually enable that autopilot of theirs on the cars.
ignore QC, thats why some of his regular tesla have problems.