Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it as a record of Musk's self-driving claims and timelines, often sarcastically in threads about missed FSD promises.
What it is
A Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Elon Musk focused on Tesla Autopilot, covering the motivation for Autopilot and Musk's views on self-driving safety and autonomy.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends shafyy · 2019-04 · on “Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]”
Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk ( [this video] ), where they discuss exactly this topic. Basically, Musk's point is that if self-driving cars are statistically safer than humans, then allowing humans to drive will make cars less safe again. Furthermore (regarding some other children here), the study that Lex and his team has done show that drivers are not less engaged while Autopilot is on (as many critics say).
Cites netinstructions · 2019-04 · on “Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]”
While you're waiting for the main event to start, here are some recent interviews with Elon about self-driving cars. He's very confident. "To me right now, this seems 'game, set, and match,'" Musk said. "I could be wrong, but it appears to be the case that Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone." I am eager to see what they unveil today. [this video] [LINK]
Cites TheAlchemist · 2025-03 · on “Tesla Used Car Price Crashes – Model Y, Model 3 Deals Explode”
It's from this interview: [this video] I think he also repeated that on an investor call later. As for prison, just ask Trevor Milton or Elizabeth Holmes.
Critical fmihaila · 2019-05 · on “Musk Can’t Dodge Tesla Cash Woes Any Longer”
> I think he's counting on 'exponential improvement'. Here he is, on record, stating that he believes Tesla has essentially solved the problem ('game, set, and match'): [1] [this video]
Critical quitit · 2024-07 · on “Tesla Analyst Nearly Crashes While Using Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving”
Sources: 1 [LINK] 2 [LINK] 3 [LINK] 4 [LINK] 5 [LINK] 6 [LINK] 7 [LINK] 8 [LINK] 9 [LINK] 10 [LINK] 11 [LINK] 12 [LINK] 13 [LINK] 14 [LINK] 15 [LINK] 16 SXSW 2018 17 [LINK] 18 [LINK] 19 [LINK] 20 [this video] 21 [LINK] 22 [LINK] 23 [LINK] 24 [LINK] 25 [LINK] 26 [LINK] 27 [LINK] 28 [LINK] 29 [LINK] 30 [LINK] 31 [LINK] 32 [LINK] 33 [LINK] 34 [LINK] 35 [LINK] 36 [LINK] 37 [LINK] 38 [LINK] 39 [LINK] 40 [LINK] 41 [LINK]
Critical Vortigaunt · 2024-08 · on “Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability”
But elon told me FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] [LINK] [5] [LINK] [6] [LINK] [7] [LINK] [8] [LINK] [9] [LINK] [10] [this video] [11] [LINK] [12] [LINK] [13] [LINK] [14] [LINK] [15] [LINK] [16] [LINK] (Or simply, [LINK] )
Critical Vortigaunt · 2024-10 · on “Tesla Robotaxi”
Oh hey I get to copy paste a list of times elon said FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] ... [4] [LINK] ... [5] [LINK] [6] [LINK] ... [7] [LINK] [8] [LINK] [9] [LINK] ... [10] [this video] [11] [LINK] [12] [LINK] ... [13] [LINK] [14] [LINK] ... [15] [LINK] ... [16] [LINK] (Or simply, [LINK] )