Edited sentence: In mid-January 2022, the company found itself in a high-profile controversy after founder and CEO O'Dowd placed a full page Sunday New York Times ad knocking Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system under the auspices of his software quality group, The Dawn Project.Musk knocked Green Hills as "a pile of trash", indicating a preference for the open source Linux operating system.O'Dowd and the Times were criticized for the ad, which did not reveal his connection to one of Tesla's FSD competitors, BMW.O'Dowd told Fox Business that Tesla used Green Hills for its early Autopilot (FSD predecessor) work