Elon Musk Promises a Truly Self-Driving Tesla in 2020

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8 points·SCAQTony··7 comments

This seems like an extremely optimistic timeline. According to their latest CA DMV disengagement report, Tesla did not drive any autonomous miles in 2018 on California public roads, same as 2017 [0]. Does Tesla have another engineering hub in another state in which it is testing self-driving in real-world conditions?

[0] https://electrek.co/2019/02/13/tesla-autonomous-mileage-cali...

Until these self driving cars can navigate a rural Michigan blizzard, they’re not level 5. Right now, they barely function during perfect Phoenix weather.

What's the difference between truly self driving and the current self-driving?

Perhaps it is a self-admission that he over-promised about a Tesla being a self-driving car in the first place?

There are several levels of driving automation, from 0 (warning system) to 5 (completely robotic taxi) But in exec speak it goes: self driving, to truly self driving, to really truly self driving, to seriously self driving, to this time it's self driving for realz, and so on...

Teslas are considered level 2/3, and since he said the car will be able to pick you up in a parking lot...I guess he means level 5!? I'm doubtful they could make such a qualitative jump in one year

Who is asking for this? Even if they can get them to not kill people and co-exist with human drivers... why would anyone want to own one of these? Why wouldn't you just hire/summon one as needed?

Yeah, yeah. This time it will be really sorta almost self driving, not like last time it was promised.

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