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Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months

posted by martyb on Thursday February 08 2018, @08:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Look-Ma!-No-Hands! dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Tesla had aimed to do a cross-country U.S. drive in one of its vehicles using fully autonomous driving capabilities by the end of last year. Obviously it didn't make that goal, or you'd have heard about it. Instead, Tesla CEO Elon Musk now says he anticipates being able to make the trip within three months, or six months at the long end.

Specifically, Musk said on an earnings call in response to a question about the autonomous drive that they'd "probably" be able to "do a coast-to-coast drive in three months, six months at the outside." When asked whether this feature would then be immediately available to customers, he did say that it "will be a feature that's available to customers," without commenting directly on timing of availability.

Musk admitted that he'd "missed the mark on that front," regarding the original autonomous drive demonstration, but he qualified that Tesla "could've done the coast-to-coast drive [last year] but that the company "would've had to do too much custom code, effectively gaming it." It would've resulted in a feature that others could have used in their vehicles as well, but only for that exact cross-country route.

Source: TechCrunch

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by isostatic on Thursday February 08 2018, @09:05PM (4 children)

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday February 08 2018, @09:05PM (#635198) Journal

    There's currently a tesla on an autonomous drive to the asteroid belt

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday February 08 2018, @09:29PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday February 08 2018, @09:29PM (#635215)

    For a certain value of the word "drive".

    That should also take about 6 Musk Months.

  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Friday February 09 2018, @11:15AM (2 children)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 09 2018, @11:15AM (#635466) Journal

    The US beat him to it back in 1969 and did a better job all around. Not only did they launch a car into orbit, they landed it on the moon, and then drove around with it. I'm not the first to point that out. In contrast, his car is even drifting aimlessly off course and won't land on anything.

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    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday February 09 2018, @06:11PM (1 child)

      by isostatic (365) on Friday February 09 2018, @06:11PM (#635621) Journal

      And yet NASA can't launch a stearing wheel into orbit, they have to buy capacity from Musk.

      • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Friday February 09 2018, @06:45PM

        by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 09 2018, @06:45PM (#635643) Journal

        True but sad. NASA has been dismantled in chunks over the years starting with Reagan. In some ways it's a surprise that even the name remains.

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