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Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18

Lex Fridman · 2.2M views · 2019-04-12 · 32:45

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Overview

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.

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HN mostly cites it as a record of Musk's self-driving claims and timelines, often sarcastically in threads about missed FSD promises.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2025

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shafyy · 2019-04 · Recommendation

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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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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Vortigaunt · 2024-10 · Criticism

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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