
Elon Musk, CEO, SpaceX and Tesla (Code Conference 2016)
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Is There a One in Billions Chance That This Is Base Reality?
G2 Patel: How far do you think from a time frame perspective we are for that becoming reality? And number two would be, how long before you think it's either illegal or extremely prohibitively expensive for humans to drive on the road? Well I mean I really would consider autonomous driving to be basically a solved problem. In dense traffic situations autonomy is really easy because you can just maintain a set distance from various cars. You aren't very unlikely to run anyone over. On highways, particularly highways that are barriers so that you don't have pedestrians, that's also relatively easy and like a Model S and Model X at this point can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person right
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