Elon Musk Says Every New Tesla Will Drive Itself

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[Narrator] Elon Musk is famous for his drive

but now he wants the rest of us

to take our hands off the wheel.

He's bringing out fully self-driving TESLA's,

well. at least autonomous ready.

This isn't just a software upgrade

which is how TESLA has updated

it's autonomous capabilities in the past.

This is new hardware, it includes eight cameras

for a full 360 degree view of the environment

and enhanced ultrasonic sensors

as well as a huge bump in computing power.

(audience Cheering) Musk is making typically big claims.

He says that by the end of next year,

he'll demonstrate a car that can drive

from L.A. to New York all without the driver,

or is it a passenger by that point,

touching a thing.

A full set of features will come at a cost, $8,000.

Every new car coming out of the company's

Fremont, California factory from now on,

will have the new hardware installed,

and that includes the new cut price Model 3.

Initially, the cars will actually be less capable

then the first generation vehicles.

Features like lane keeping, adaptive cruise control,

which is all auto pilot really is,

won't be turned on until probably December.

Early buyers are going to be guinea pigs,

their cars will have to collectively accumulate

millions of miles with a human in control

and the computer running in the background

in shadow mode, comparing what it would of done

to what the bag of flesh does,

until the new hardware and software is fully proven.

In addition to training the system

that will create a digital trail

which may show regulators how many crashes

the self driving functionality could have prevented.

They of course, may or may not put the kibosh

on Musk's autonomous ambitions.

Google's been working on the same sort of functionality

since 2009 and yet still hasn't cracked it,

so with this new announcement,

Elon Musk has set himself

yet another crazy deadline to try to meet.

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