To Fortune: Autopilot death 'not material', 'do the bloody math'
- From:
- Elon Musk
- Date:
- July 4, 2016 (Sent while Fortune sought comment on July 4, 2016; article published July 5)
- To:
- Carol J. Loomis (Fortune)
Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.
is not material to the value of Tesla.
[...]
Indeed, if anyone bothered to do the math (obviously, you did not) they would realize that of the over 1M auto deaths per year worldwide, approximately half a million people would have been saved if the Tesla autopilot was universally available. Please, take 5 mins and do the bloody math before you write an article that misleads the public.