Big tech billionaire Elon Musk said during a Monday interview that manual driving will soon be a thing of the past as self-driving vehicles continue to rise in popularity.
Musk joined the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Israel via video and stayed up until 2 a.m. local time to answer questions about the future of technology.
He addressed Tesla’s robotaxi rollout and said the company is making “steady progress” on self-driving software that aims to mimic how humans drive.
Musk said he hopes to achieve this through “AI and cameras” paired with a “digital neural net.”
“Like 10 years from now, probably 90 percent of all distance driven will be driven by the AI in a self-driving car,” he predicted.
“So overwhelmingly, it’ll be quite a niche thing in 10 years to actually be driving your own car, because the car will drive you,” he continued.
Elon Musk in new interview: “10 years from now, probably 90% of all distance driven will be driven by the AI in a self-driving car. It will be quite a niche thing in 10 years to actually be driving your own car.”
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Musk also predicted that this new system would be safer than human driving, adding, “It is quite magical because the car feels like it is sentient. It actually feels like it’s alive. And you can actually, as we improve the software, you can feel the sentience growing in the car.”
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