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Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year

Teslarati

Elon Musk has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as its 2021 Person of the Year. The award, which the magazine gives to an individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or worse, has been ongoing for nearly a century. elonmusk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

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Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year. I think we will see something similar with the Chinese car companies.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat.

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Tesla Sweden employee speaks out after getting expelled from IF Metall union

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The mechanic also noted that he has not felt much change in Tesla Sweden’s operations despite the different sympathy strikes that have been implemented by IF Metall’s allies against the electric car maker. “If this person has experienced fear, it is, of course, unfortunate; a person experiences what he experiences.

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Tesla tweaks financing product with best resale value guarantee and lower monthly payments

Green Car Congress

As with the prior resale guarantee, this higher number is also backed personally by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The Model S is rated by Motor Trend, Automobile Magazine and many others as the best car of 2013, so it should naturally therefore have the highest resale value. —Tesla Co-founder & CEO Elon Musk.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly.

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Tesla’s FSD program defended by Jim Cramer: “I think we need it”

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Cramer’s comments were made following Elon Musk and his youngest child, Baby X’s appearance at TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year event. Look, we’ve lost millions of people to car accidents around the world over the years, yet this is somehow never part of the discourse around autonomous driving.

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