At Tesla, Elon Musk is pushing hard for vehicle autonomy. He has famously said that the cars produced since last October (2016) have all the equipment necessary for self driving, and just need the software catch up. If this report by the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, however, his mouth may be writing cheques his tech can't yet cash. It attempts to make the case that engineers are in such disagreement with Musk's assertions regarding autonomy that they've quit.

According to the paper, Sterling Anderson, Tesla's Autopilot director at the time of the complete hardware suite announcement said the decision to claim its eventual full self-driving ability came from Mr. Musk. While it doesn't say whether this supposed conflict was explicitly the cause, it does point out that Anderson resigned just two months later, along with a couple other engineers. Anderson then co-founded his own self-driving technology company — Aurora Innovation — with  Chris Urmson, who had headed up an autonomous driving program at Google.