Autonomous Vehicle News
Tesla vehicles are displayed during the opening day of the Tesla 'Gigafactory' in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, 22 March 2022. EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN MARQUARDT / POOL/FILESHANGHAI, China - Electric car giant Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles "later this year", CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, in the billionaire's latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone. Musk has missed his own deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicle -- and Tesla's driver-assistance technology has provoked regulatory probes in the United States. China is the world's biggest electric vehicle market and Tesla announced in April it would build a second massive factory in Shanghai. Tesla reported a drop in first-quarter earnings this year, with the company undertaking a series of price cuts in the face of competition from other automakers.