On the contrary, I thought Hotz came off in the original article as a bit too arrogant when he basically bashed Tesla&#x27;s autopilot in order to sell the reporter on his own project.<p>EDIT: For what it&#x27;s worth, this may have been the angle the reporter wanted: reporters are very good at stroking your ego and getting you to tell them things you shouldn&#x27;t be telling them. Nonetheless, revealing email correspondence about private business&#x2F;job dealings is not very classy, whether or not you&#x27;re a big company.