Elon Musk thanked Ashok Elluswamy for his words and complimented the Indian-origin engineer for his contributions to Tesla's success.
Elon Musk is the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Inc., an automotive company based in America. He recently made a post on X (formerly Twitter) and praised Indian-origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy, the first person hired by Tesla's autopilot team, who has contributed to several breakthroughs for the company.
This started with Ashok making a post on X about his work and his experience with Tesla and Elon Musk. He wrote, "@elonmusk has been the key driver of AI and autonomy at Tesla. He has always pushed us to achieve great things, even when such ideas were seemingly impossible at the time." He also provided several examples of him being a visionary and Elon's hand in Tesla's success.
He ended the article with, "In the future, fully autonomous cars and useful household robots will be common place and the world will think that this was how it was always supposed to be. Until then, we need Elon Musk to push the frontier, because he sees it already."
Responding to Ashok's article, Elon also made a post and wrote, "Thanks Ashok! Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software. Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist. Btw, I never suggested that he say anything and I had no idea he wrote this until I saw it 10 mins ago!
Thanks Ashok!
Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software.
Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist.
Btw, I never… https://t.co/7eBfzu0Nci
Several people came across the post on X and left their comments. One user wrote, "Elon, thank you for all that you are doing with Tesla. Not only will automation be a great boom to the economy, it'll bring independence to many people who are elderly and can no longer drive."
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