Tell me you don't understand…
Tell me you don't understand Tesla without telling me you don't understand Tesla.
Not trying to sound like some Elon fan boy, but Elon does eventually deliver on the key elements, which is the difference between Tesla and Theranos.
I understand that people feel compelled to write articles like this, but just because someone is a visionary and has lofty goals and ideas does not make them a bad person or even a deceptive person. If people see the vision and want to support him/her/whomever...it's their money, let them!
As far as the Robo Taxi event. Full unattended self driving IS coming, it's just a lot more difficult that initially expected. The Optimus robots, even though they had people controlling them, they weren't the newest version of the robots and even if that's as far as they go in advancing this technology, could change the way dangerous jobs are done by having someone remotely operate a robot instead of doing the job on site.
Let's not be so short sighted and embrace a possibility. If you don't want to, then don't give any futurist company money, but don't be writing pieces like this.