Dying is easy. Making a self-driving car is hard. Tesla & Waymo at the crossroads.
Tesla is in the process of rolling out firmware Version 9, which includes features which are supposed to unlock more of the self-driving potential backed into every car it builds. Nobody has been more adamant or passionate about the benefits of autonomous driving than Elon Musk, who has criticized negative news reports about crashes involving the use of Autopilot, claiming they will influence people not to use the system and thus drive less safely.