Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
Lex Fridman1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2019–2025
interview · general · 2019–2025 on HN
A Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Elon Musk focused on Tesla Autopilot, covering the motivation for Autopilot and Musk's views on self-driving safety and autonomy.
HN mostly cites it as a record of Musk's self-driving claims and timelines, often sarcastically in threads about missed FSD promises.
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Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk ( ▶ this video ), where they discuss exactly this topic. Basically, Musk's point is that if self-driving cars are statistically safer than humans, then allowing humans to drive will make cars less safe again. Furthermore (regarding some other children here), the study that Lex and his team has done show that drivers are not less engaged while Autopilot is on (as many critics say).
It's from this interview: ▶ this video I think he also repeated that on an investor call later. As for prison, just ask Trevor Milton or Elizabeth Holmes.
Oh hey I get to copy paste a list of times elon said FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] link [2] link [3] link ... [4] link ... [5] link [6] link ... [7] link [8] link [9] link ... [10] ▶ this video [11] link [12] link ... [13] link [14] link ... [15] link ... [16] link (Or simply, link )
But elon told me FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] link [2] link [3] link [4] link [5] link [6] link [7] link [8] link [9] link [10] ▶ this video [11] link [12] link [13] link [14] link [15] link [16] link (Or simply, link )
Sources: 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link 5 link 6 link 7 link 8 link 9 link 10 link 11 link 12 link 13 link 14 link 15 link 16 SXSW 2018 17 link 18 link 19 link 20 ▶ this video 21 link 22 link 23 link 24 link 25 link 26 link 27 link 28 link 29 link 30 link 31 link 32 link 33 link 34 link 35 link 36 link 37 link 38 link 39 link 40 link 41 link
> I think he's counting on 'exponential improvement'. Here he is, on record, stating that he believes Tesla has essentially solved the problem ('game, set, and match'): [1] ▶ this video
While you're waiting for the main event to start, here are some recent interviews with Elon about self-driving cars. He's very confident. "To me right now, this seems 'game, set, and match,'" Musk said. "I could be wrong, but it appears to be the case that Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone." I am eager to see what they unveil today. ▶ this video link