"There's a huge split in opinion of him as a public figure versus as a manager versus as a person one-on-one," said Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina and expert in autonomous vehicles. "Reconciling each of those images is another fascinating project in its own right.""
""A lot of people in Detroit have very strong feelings on Tesla, including a lot of skepticism about its technologies or the safety engineering," said Smith. "There are conversations in which people are saying, 'We're waiting for the big crash, the big failure.'""
- Date Published:04/25/2017
- Original Publication:TechRepublic