Will a fully autonomous Tesla require more sensor inputs, or a new lidar system or something? While Musk has long championed an automotive age filled with self-driving cars, this is the most optimistic timeline for their deployment we’ve seen Musk make yet. One of them is the autonomous driving technology he hopes to offer through his Tesla Motors marque. Even more, Musk has always been careful to emphasize that it could take an additional two or three years for regulators to actually approve the technology after it exists. Producing a fully autonomous vehicle that can operate in any condition and on any road, for example, is easy-ish.
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This week, however, Musk told business magazine Fortune that Tesla is making even greater progress in its development of autonomous driving systems.
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In the not too distant future, Musk envisions that all cars will be fully autonomous.
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Meanwhile, in connection with Tesla’s efforts in the autonomous-vehicle arena, Musk had previously said in a November post on Twitter microblogging platform that Tesla has made “generalized full autonomy” a “super high priority”. He spoke of how the whole driverless vehicle idea was interesting and promising, but also how there would for some time at least be an important role to be played by a human driver. “And for Tesla, it will be a lot sooner than that”.
Finally, Musk pointed out that regulators will lag behind the technology and in some jurisdictions, approval of autonomous cars may take five years or more. As Musk and others have pointed out, perfecting the technology is just one part of the equation.
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In a nutshell, he said it would be “maybe five or six years from now”, when drivers can “literally get in the vehicle, go to sleep, and wake up at (their) destination”.
