This isn't Elon Musk's fault.

It doesn't make sense to use off-the-shelf graphics cards. They're not designed for the environment of cars, and aren't made to have that reliability. The medium older Tesla Autopilot uses Nvidia platform meant for self-driving. The newer Autopilot uses Tesla-designed SoCs that have fancy neural network accelerators.

Everything important in cars needs to be high-reliability. Between that, the form factor, added redundant cost, and the reduced integration of having a separate PCIe card instead of something integrated in an SoC, it doesn't make sense to use a graphics card.

Tesla's future infotainment will have an AMD 6xxx GPU so that will take some supply away from gamers.

Tesla is famous for using off the shelf parts.

I have no idea why people speculate this kind of stuff so much, when a 5 second google search will find the answer for you https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-takes-aim-at-teslas-cus...

So no, the claim that Elon is somehow responsible for the scaling/shortage of Nvidia gaming cards does not seem to hold up.

I dont even understand why the claim that Tesla uses off the shelf parts even matters when its simply verifiable either way.

I didn’t say they use off the shelf video cards. But they absolutely do use off the shelf parts.