“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,” said Charles Poon, VP of vehicle hardware engineering, in a briefing this week with reporters.

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    8 days ago

    Well he’s being honest in admitting his mistake. In 20 years in the corporate world I’ve never seen an exec do that.

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      8 days ago

      There’s no way that this is honest, no-one could possibly have been as stupid as he’s pretending that they were.

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      8 days ago

      Or a manager, or a middle-manager. Actually anyone that is not directly working on improving the product, that is 50% of the employees of any company.