Tesla issues 'correction' on article about George Hotz's self-driving car

OK, this is weird. Tesla on Thursday posted (and its CEO Elon Musk tweeted) a "correction" to a Bloomberg article on George Hotz's self-driving car technology, which he reportedly built by himself in a garage

The article in question is an in-depth, fascinating look into the recent work of Hotz, best known for being the first person to jailbreak both the iPhone and the PlayStation 3. In the piece, Hotz describes how he built an entire self-driving car system in a month, with a mere 2,000 lines of code, and applied it to his Acura. He also took the article's author, Ashlee Vance, on several rides, in which the system is shown to be vastly improving over the course of several months Read more...