He is not a bad guy, actually an amazing in how he made electric cars a reality. But he does optimize for his companies success at times, pushing the bounds of morality/ethics. So don't take everything he says as a unbiased, some are strongly biased and some not at all too (otherwise we wouldn't listen to him in the first place).1. LiDAR: Though use of LiDAR would have provided extra modality to reduce probability of accidents, he kept vehemently opposing it. Practically speaking, back in 2016-2017, Tesla couldn't afford to put a LiDAR in their cars. Most other autonomous companies are not selling those cars but Tesla has to.
2. Bitcoin: He invested $1.2B, trumped it up, sold off 10% of it, made a profit to help show that TESLA is profitable and dissed it after that. Why did he keep the rest, we will know in sometime (or may be never, Hi Elon, if he is  reading this).
3. He knew that CA lockdown would have made it extremely difficult for his company and thus kept using fake/on-the-edge news to promote his objectives.
4. Now he needs to show a new story to buy the investors and not spook them, so he will probably release badly-named (and/or half-baked) and potentially[a] dangerous FSD in Beta version.a. Dangerous in that, some people who either take too much risk or get unlucky would die. This probably won't kill 1000's of people but it could kill a few people.