Elon Musk Named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year

The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has been named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year. According to Time, “For 2021 was the year of Elon Unbound.” The publication explained, “In April, SpaceX won NASA’s exclusive…

Savannah RychcikDec 13, 20213 min read

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“There is a federal investigation underway into the autopilot software that Tesla has, which, despite the name, is not autopilot software. It does not drive the car for you. And a lot of people in Tesla have expressed a lot of skepticism about whether the company’s technology is eventually going to be able to get there,” Ball said.

Musk argued, “Far more accidents off autopilot than on autopilot.”

Commenting on his tweets, Musk called them “self-inflicted wounds.”

Time also offered a behind-the-scenes look at the publication’s Person of the Year issue.

“It’s a theme that resonates throughout this issue. Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time and our Athlete of the Year, took sports and the world forward in 2021 by using her spotlight at the Tokyo Olympics to stand up for mental health, and making sure athletes are measured by more than their wins and losses,” the publication stated.

It continued, “The miracle of fast and effective vaccines that saved millions of lives from COVID-19 was the work of so many scientists over so many years that we created a new category to recognize them, Heroes of the Year.”

Time revealed its 2021 entertainer of the year to be Olivia Rodrigo.

“In her profile of our 2021 Entertainer of the Year Olivia Rodrigo, my colleague Lucy Feldman made an observation that jumped out at me. Rodrigo, the 18-year-old pop sensation whose music has won over audiences of all ages, ‘has a gift for picking the best of the past,’ Lucy notes, ‘and finding just the right way to situate it in the present,'” Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Time Edward Felsenthal wrote.

Felsenthal even offered the reader a look into how the publication itself has changed over the past year.

“For us at TIME, it has also been a year of building on the past to forge the future. We developed, like so many of you, a new hybrid approach to work as many of us now ping back and forth between our virtual and physical offices,” he wrote.