Tesla in the archive

The archive holds 30 reports filed under Tesla, spanning 2015–2017. The earliest is “Driverless Transportation’s D20 Stock Index - 2014 In Review”; the most recent is “Tesla's Tumultuous 2nd Quarter Tops D20, and Finally Some Positive News for Uber”. Original reporting came via Jennifer van der Kleut, Burney Simpson, Driverless Transportation and others.

This period matters for a specific reason: it is when the industry's assumptions were set. Testing permits were first issued, the acquisitions that consolidated the perception layer closed, the regulatory frameworks still in force were drafted, and a great many confident deployment dates were published. Almost all of those dates passed without incident, which makes the contemporaneous record more useful now than it was at the time — it can be read against what actually happened.

Coverage under Tesla overlaps most often with D20 Stock Index, Mobileye, Driverless and Google, which is a reasonable map of where the topic sat in the industry's attention.

For what the listed companies in this field did over the same period, the D20 index roster tracks the corporate side. For what has since been deployed on public roads, the deployment tracker records operators, cities and dates, and the research library holds the papers this reporting drew on.