Where to begin? Those relieved by the admission that his strategy is impossible are missing the point. His narrative of autonomy was always strategic. Finely-tuned hype. AI will not "solve" self-driving. It was never going to. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1387901003664699392

That's not to say self-driving is impossible. Musk now wants the world to meet him halfway. Blaming the world for being insufficiently machine-readable is a start. The claim that this is still about "solving" AI is a call to his followers to keep following. Will they?

We've just submitted a paper on "The attachments of 'autonomous' vehicles that gets at some of this. We are looking to see how long the narrative of autonomy can continue.