Elon Musk warned cuts: Tesla laid off 200 workers from its autonomous driving division

Tesla, Elon Musk’s car company, has laid off 200 employees from its autonomous driving division. This cut comes after the CEO of the company had previously announced that 10% of workers would be separated from their positions due to a “super bad feeling” since “there was excess staff”.

According to Bloomberg, most of these 200 workers had temporary contracts, paid by the hour, and we were at the Tesla facility in San Mateo, California. these employees were in charge of manual data labeling, a human revision necessary for the training of artificial intelligences. That is, an essential job for a product like the autopilot of Tesla vehicles.

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Workers reviewed the images captured by the vehicles when navigating. In this way, they manually identified important aspects within the visual material, such as traffic signs, for example. Thanks to this data, the AI ​​is trained to recognize them. The plant in San Mateo had 350 employees, but, after the layoffs, the rest will be transferred to other company facilities.

Elon Musk had previously noted, in an email reported by Reuters, that had a bad feeling about the future of the economy. For this reason, added to the fact that he also indicated that there was excess staff, would end up laying off 10% of Tesla’s staff, which would be roughly 10,000 workers. Likewise, he had “asked” his employees to return to work in person or to send their resignation.

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Musk he had already made his concerns known about a possible economic recession in the near future. “Elon Musk has a unique and informed view of the global economy. We believe that a message from him would have a lot of credibility”, said Adam Jones, an analyst at the American financial multinational Morgan Stanley at the time.

Until 2021, it had been reported that Tesla had 100 thousand employees in all its plants around the world. However, due to the vision of a future with a bad economy of Elon Muskmany could end up jobless in a few months.

Source: Elcomercio

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