Elon Musk's Appetite for Destruction - The New York Times

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Early on, the software had the regrettable habit of hitting police cruisers. No one knew why, though Tesla's engineers had some good guesses: Stationary objects and flashing lights seemed to trick the A.I. The car would be driving along normally, the computer well in control, and suddenly it would veer to the right or left and -- smash -- at least 10 times in just over three years. For a company that depended on an unbounded sense of optimism among investors to maintain its high stock price -- Tesla was at one point worth more than Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW, Ford and General Motors combined -- these crashes might seem like a problem.