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I and many millions of other Americans will happily ride in them. Your particular political view does not even represent 50% of the country. Even if you say 50% of Americans will boycott the company purely for political reasons, that's still a market of 150M people.

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I do not trust any self driving car that can't directly measure distances to objects and instead just guesses it from video cameras.

Do you not trust any human drivers? They only have 2 eyeballs and cannot precisely measure the distance to any objects.

My guess is that you have ridden in an Uber or Lyft before and were comfortable enough to rely on their eyeball based system even though they weren't able to measure the distance to objects.

Regardless of whether you personally trust a camera-based system, the data do seem to show that it is possible to build a camera-based self driving system and have it be safer than human drivers.

Current computer binocular vision are not at all comparable to human vision and humans really aren't that great of drivers anyway.

What data? I don't really trust Tesla to release accurate data.

The CEO of a company saying and doing batshit crazy things for no reason, leading to a 50% (or 25%, or even 10%) global boycott, does not instill confidence in the company as an investment opportunity.

And if Musk were to suddenly die the value of his companies would instantly crater.

Not sure if this is an indictment of the company, or an endorsement of Musk.

It is an acknowledgement that gullible people fall for Musk's hype over and over.

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