Tesla’s Autopilot won’t achieve full autonomy, Waymo CEO says


A Waymo self-driving autonomous vehicle in Tempe, Arizona. Waymo concluded early on as part of Google’s self-driving project that it was unsafe for humans to trade off the task of driving back and forth with a robotic system. — Sipa USA/TNS

Tesla Inc has taken a misguided approach to developing fully autonomous cars and its “full self-driving” system will fail to live up to its billing, the head of Alphabet Inc’s Waymo told a German business magazine.

“It is a misconception that you can simply develop a driver-assistance system further until one day you can magically jump to a fully autonomous driving system,” John Krafcik, the chief executive officer of Waymo, said in an interview with Manager Magazin.

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