This man is a leader. Ten years ago he had a crazy idea. Let’s train a computer vision model that can drive a car. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. We didn’t have the giant Nvidia clusters we have now back then. An end to end neural network to handle the entire driving task was impractical and a pipe dream. His team faced technical challenges. Pushback. Jeers and screams from every journalist who said it would never work. Resistance from regulators. And he persisted. He kept investing. Any other CEO probably would have given up, and shut the project down. He didn’t. He never gives up. And now, he’s finally cracked the self-driving problem and is rolling out the first driverless cars using just computer vision in history. Now Europe has self-driving for the first time. He kept pushing and pushing until he broke through. And he’ll keep on pushing until every country in the EU has self-driving. A huge amount of credit goes to Ashok, the Tesla AI team, Andrej Karpathy, the chip team, and many technical geniuses. But it’s often not appreciated that visionary leadership was required to even bring this team together, and allow them to thrive. You can disagree with him, mock him, glorify or vilify him. Just about the only thing you can’t do is ignore him. Because he changes things. He pushes the bar higher. He leads our species forward. Thank you so much to the entire Tesla team (including Elon) for building us such incredible products. My Tesla makes my life better and easier every day, especially the self-driving. I hope everyone on the Tesla team knows how impactful their work is to the lives of millions of customers.