Mr. Musk is wrong, and behind his error is, perhaps, his lack of technical aptitude.

> Musk and almost everyone else in the business recognize self-driving cars and trucks as the future of automotive transportation.

Those people in their prime majority think that some kind of "AI" program will be somehow think over the inputs and tell where to drive. They all have too much expectations for technology coming under the word "AI" these days

They all do so without understanding what those "AIs" actually are, and not realising that such programs can't make any "cognition."

Until that change, any talk of "self-driving" is premature. This does not preclude however the coming improvements in cruise control, and computerised collision avoidance.