Elon Musk predicts Tesla self-driving cars ‘later this year’

Musk speaks via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. The mercurial entrepreneur and Twitter owner admitted that he had been wrong in previous predictions on this timeline, but added: ‘I feel like we’re closer to it than we ever have been.’ — AFP

SHANGHAI: Electric car giant Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles “later this year”, CEO Elon Musk said on July 6, in the billionaire’s latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone.

“In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision,” Musk said via video link at the opening ceremony of an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai.