Autonomous Vehicle News
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. Advertising Read more"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. 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.