the "driver" (the CEO, Elon Musk) is not "driving" (actively engaged in the running of) the "vehicle" (the business: TESLA). Instead it is "on autopilot" (employees are executing their duties without direction).
I didn't think this was a particularly hard riddle
@brianstorms @meganox @lifeinneon
Brian. You are responding to *jokes* and insisting on evidence that the joke is provably true.
They are jokes. Like the other one about the rockets and the genius narrative. Also a joke! A joke with a seed of truth, because as you note elsewhere there is a terrible stupid media narrative that Musk is a singular genius. The joke is about that.
The people telling the jokes don’t believe the narrative they’re mocking, that’s why the jokes are funny. They are jokes about our terrible stupid culture. Enjoy them or don’t, but demanding evidence for jokes makes you look silly and tribal.