Hmm. He was the one who insisted that the cameras on his cars needed to be visual only, because he somehow thought restricting things to the visible light spectrum was better than LIDAR --- so yeah, that tracks.
I find it hilarious that most of the criticisms of the Miles Bron character in Glass Onion sort of disappeared over the last few years, as Elon demonstrated that Bron wasn't a caricature -- if anything, Elon is dumber than Miles.