Elon Musk says he aims to release 'full self driving' capabilities on some Tesla cars by the end of this year, but driverless cars aren't legal yet in most places.
It’s a sunny day in March and “Machine Planet” is flying a single-engine Cessna over Northern California.Even Tesla’s instruction on current technology seems problematic. A few weeks ago, Tesla’s head of manufacturing, Jerome Guillen, said that the “No. 1” reason for owner visits to Tesla service centers is to learn “how to use Autopilot.
Tesla’s aggressive stance flies in the face of the go-slower approach of all other major companies. Waymo, Ford, General Motors’ Cruise and others have lengthened their development timelines and say that safe deployment of driverless cars is taking longer than expected. Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who specializes in autonomous driving, agrees.
At the same time, Tesla has not made clear what it means by Full Self-Driving. The term seems to imply Level 5 full driverless automation. But when asked for clarification, Tesla’s public relations department sent this quote from a recent Musk presentation on the subject: “We expect to be confident enough from our standpoint to say that we think people do not need to touch the wheel, look out of the window.
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