This one issue is one of the primary reasons Google ended up deciding not to acquire Tesla really early on. Google's been way ahead of them for a long time and

This one issue is one of the primary reasons Google ended up deciding not to acquire Tesla really early on. Google's been way ahead of them for a long time and their engineers were extremely aware of how reckless this type of marketing from Musk was But the marketing worked. They sold the dream to people and only got sued a couple times and still got the most subsidization of any automaker