Tesla, GM and others hyped up emerging technologies in autos. Now they have to deliver
In October 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a bold promise: One of the company’s vehicle’s would drive itself from Los Angeles to New York by the end of 2017 in what he dubbed a demonstration of “full autonomy.”
The trip, which received international attention, was announced in conjunction with Tesla disclosing all of its vehicles were being equipped with “full self-driving hardware” that would “be substantially safer than a human driver.” The company had previously spent a year testing the new hardware.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/tesla-gm-and-others-hyped-up-self-driving-and-electric-vehicles.html