{"id":86184,"date":"2018-12-28T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/musk-teslas-fully-autonomous-capabilities-about-to-accelerate"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:44:30","slug":"musk-teslas-fully-autonomous-capabilities-about-to-accelerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/musk-teslas-fully-autonomous-capabilities-about-to-accelerate","title":{"rendered":"Musk: Tesla\u2019s Fully Autonomous Capabilities \u201cAbout to Accelerate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-teslas-fully-autonomous-capabilities-about-to-accelerate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The evidence that self-driving vehicle manufacturers aren\u2019t always upfront with the public hasn\u2019t helped either. An excoriating October <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/10\/22\/did-uber-steal-googles-intellectual-property\"><em>New Yorker <\/em>investigation<\/a> into the early years of the Google self-driving research project that eventually became Waymo found that the company had performed reckless road tests early in its work \u2014 and hadn\u2019t always reported accidents.<\/p>\n<p><b>Road Ahead<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s promise to accelerate fully autonomous research, along with a call for more internal Tesla testers for the program, run precisely counter to that narrative. That\u2019s not surprising: the eccentric Musk is known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/03\/elon-musk-billion-dollar-crusade-to-stop-ai-space-x\">imagining futures that are still years away<\/a> \u2014 and using his wealth and influence to attempt to steer history toward or away from them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/fully-autonomous-tesla-elon-musk\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/fully-autonomous-tesla-elon-musk<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence that self-driving vehicle manufacturers aren\u2019t always upfront with the public hasn\u2019t helped either. An excoriating October New Yorker investigation into the early years of the Google self-driving research project that eventually became Waymo found that the company had performed reckless road tests early in its work \u2014 and hadn\u2019t always reported accidents. Road [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}