Musk says Tesla will offer self-driving without human intervention this year

Shanghai (China) (EFE).- The co-founder and CEO of the American automaker Tesla, Elon Musk, today expressed his conviction that his vehicles will offer autonomous driving without human intervention before the end of 2023.

In a speech during the opening day of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), held in the Chinese megalopolis of Shanghai, the executive assured that, during the latest tests of his systems on the roads of the United States, “they rarely require intervention human”.

In November of last year, Tesla opened the beta of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) assisted-driving system to all drivers in North America who had purchased the option and met the company’s required usage metric conditions.

FSD Beta allows Tesla vehicles to have a certain degree of autonomous driving

FSD Beta allows Tesla vehicles to have a certain degree of autonomous driving although the driver needs to be always attentive, with hands on the wheel, to take control of the car at any time.

However, its development was marked by controversy: when Musk announced the FSD system in late 2016, the businessman implied that it guaranteed full autonomous driving for Tesla cars.

Subsequently, he assured that the system would not need any type of human supervision from 2020, something that has not yet been fulfilled.

“I think fully automated level 4 or 5 driving (the levels where you don’t have to have a human driving) can be achieved by the end of this year. I have made predictions before and they were all wrong, but I think that, at this moment, the forecasts are closer to reality than ever,” Musk said, quoted by the Shanghai news portal The Paper.

The local press also indicates that the businessman assured that Tesla is willing to share its autonomous driving technology with other automakers.

The manager also had words for the development capabilities of artificial intelligence in China, assuring that, when the Asian country decides to do something, “it is capable of doing it well.”

Musk also said that the humanoid robot that Tesla is developing to do “dangerous” jobs that people don’t want to do is still in the early stages of development.