Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

I'm still convinced that it being called "full self driving" is misleading marketing and really needs to stop, since it isn't according to Tesla

Why do you think Musk put so much money into helping Trump win? Tesla was under multiple investigations for safety and unkept promises, and he knew that he would not have leverage to halt those under a Harris administration.

If that was his goal he would have minded his own business after the election, instead of spouting invective posts against Trump on X.

That was after Musk realized he had alienated his entire consumer base.

That happened much earlier. The split with Trump happened after it finally sunk in that that Republicans weren't actually interested in smaller government or cost savings, that that was just a rhetorical weapon that they deploy selectively to get elected.

I thought Musk was an amazing, brilliantly intelligent man?

But it took him four months deeply embedded with the Republican party to come to this conclusion?

It's been blindingly obvious to anyone remotely paying attention to US politics for the last decade (or two, or more, but blindingly so, more recently).