Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism (Update)
Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars amid skepticism (Update) April 22, 2019 by Michael Liedtke And Tom Krisher Tesla CEO Elon Musk maintained that the electric carmaker had developed the "best" computer chip for autonomous driving Tesla expects to have full self-driving cars in which humans won't have to touch the steering wheel around the second quarter of next year. The company made the announcement during an investor conference at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters Monday, in which it outlined its bold but risky bid to transform Tesla's electric cars into driverless vehicles. CEO Elon Musk told investors that the company's computer to enable its electric cars to become self-driving vehicles is powered by the best processing chip in the world. Tesla had never made its own computer chip before it hired an ex-Apple engineer three years ago to design it. Now, Musk boasts the chip is better than any other on the market "by a huge margin." Expe...