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Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18

Lex Fridman
1 HN recommenders · discussed 2019–2025
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About this video

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.

Why it appears in the archive

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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shafyy · 2019-04 · rec

Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk ( [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).

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netinstructions · 2019-04 · reference

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. [VIDEO] [LINK]

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TheAlchemist · 2025-03 · reference

It's from this interview: [VIDEO] I think he also repeated that on an investor call later. As for prison, just ask Trevor Milton or Elizabeth Holmes.

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fmihaila · 2019-05 · critical

> 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] [VIDEO]

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quitit · 2024-07 · critical

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Vortigaunt · 2024-08 · critical

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] [VIDEO] [11] [LINK] [12] [LINK] [13] [LINK] [14] [LINK] [15] [LINK] [16] [LINK] (Or simply, [LINK] )

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Vortigaunt · 2024-10 · critical

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] [VIDEO] [11] [LINK] [12] [LINK] ... [13] [LINK] [14] [LINK] ... [15] [LINK] ... [16] [LINK] (Or simply, [LINK] )

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