Elon Musk has been promising fully self-driving Teslas to the public for years and the beta version of Full Self-Driving is already in over 300,000 cars. But as a recent recall attests, the software still isn’t ready to take the wheel—and Musk himself may be a big reason why. 

Guest: Faiz Siddiqui, tech reporter for the Washington Post

Host: Lizzie O’Leary

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