For Tesla's boss, in 20 years' time, having a conventional car will be like having a horse. Driving non-autonomous cars will be more or less like horse riding.
Did you read Guilherme Costa's chronicle last week? Elon Musk shares the same opinion. At Tesla's shareholder quarterly earnings conference, a journalist questioned Elon Musk about his view of 100% autonomous cars. The answer was as follows:“I'm saying live that all cars will end up being fully autonomous in the long run. I think it's going to be pretty unusual to see cars that don't have full range. This new autonomous car production line will soon dominate the automotive industry in a period of 15 to 20 years. And for Tesla it will be much sooner than that. Insofar as the cars being produced have full range, it is a consequence that cars that do not have full range are devalued. It will be like owning a horse, where we actually have it for sentimental reasons.”
Perhaps these are not the words that give us the most encouragement. But with Tesla betting heavily on autonomous driving, with the recent launch of the Tesla Autopilot Beta, it's hard to know how far this isn't a CEO's Marketing strategy.
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Well, Musk has also said that he intends to die on Mars – which leads us to believe that the Tesla CEO's list of aspirations is as much fantasy as it is fundamental. Since he expects the steering wheel to disappear within 20 years, let's at least pray that this means more racetracks to waste tirelessly, with no speed limits, where we can, in the future, go for a ride with our four-horses. wheels'.