Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
December 2015: &quot;We&#x27;re going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years.&quot;<p>January 2016: &quot;In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected by land &amp; not blocked by borders, eg you&#x27;re in LA and the car is in NY&quot;<p>June 2016: &quot;I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem, I think we are less than two years away from complete autonomy, safer than humans, but regulations should take at least another year,&quot; Musk said.<p>March 2017: &quot;I think that [you will be able to fall asleep in a tesla] is about two years&quot;<p>March 2018: &quot;I think probably by end of next year [end of 2019] self-driving will encompass essentially all modes of driving and be at least 100% to 200% safer than a person.&quot;<p>Nov 15, 2018: &quot;Probably technically be able to [self deliver Teslas to customers doors] in about a year then its up to the regulators&quot;<p>Feb 19 2019: &quot;We will be feature complete full self driving this year. The car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, take you all the way to your destination without an intervention this year. I&#x27;m certain of that. That is not a question mark. It will be essentially safe to fall asleep and wake up at their destination towards the end of next year&quot;<p>April 12th 2019: &quot;I&#x27;d be shocked if not next year, at the latest that having the person, having human intervene will decrease safety. DECREASE! (in response to human supervision and adding driver monitoring system)&quot;<p>April 22nd 2019: &quot;We expect to be feature complete in self driving this year, and we expect to be confident enough from our standpoint to say that we think people do not need to touch the wheel and can look out the window sometime probably around the second quarter of next year.&quot;<p>April 22nd 2019: “We will have more than one million robotaxis on the road,” Musk said. “A year from now, we’ll have over a million cars with full self-driving, software... everything.&quot;<p>May 9th 2019: &quot;We could have gamed an LA&#x2F;NY Autopilot journey last year, but when we do it this year, everyone with Tesla Full Self-Driving will be able to do it too&quot;<p>Dec 1, 2020: “I am extremely confident of achieving full autonomy and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year. But I think at least some jurisdictions are going to allow full self-driving next year.”<p>-<p>Elon’s just been repeating the same promise for the over half a decade now. Oldest trick in the book.<p>Disclaimer: I drive a Model 3