[mullingitover]

> There's a fundamental difference between leaders that are outright evil, harming others directly for their own gain, and leaders that just fucked up late at night while zonked out on medication.

Generous to assume, given recent revelations, that prescription medication is the drug he was zonked out on while behaving erratically.

> Elon tried to make self-driving as safe as possible. He's limited by technology, not morals.

Arguably the end goal was the make billions of dollars for himself, and self-driving is the lever he found. If he was doing all this for a researcher's salary I'd have an easier time believing he was doing it for humanity's sake.