Plenty of quasi experts make a living shilling a point of view. I’ve just seen so much trash published under the Forbes “contributor” by line that I automatically distrust it at this point.
My comment wasn’t so much about this particular author as it was a comment on the general motivations of people who write on the Forbes contributor platform.
In this case the author bills themselves as a consultant on self driving cars so given the venue of publication one has to wonder whether they were paid to write this. Writing under the Forbes contributor by line is an extremely questionable choice in any case.