So who is ready to climb aboard an airliner with no pilots? The technology is certainly there. I'll start...not me.

I would. By the time such a plane is approved I would have complete confidence with its safety.

There will never be a pilotless passenger plane in our lifetimes. But I do expect that the capabilites of the auto pilot will be significantly expanded.

I could not agree more - it is so much fun. And much safer than me driving. I view it as Tesla primary, I'm back up. 2 sets of eyes on the road. And I blush to say this, but I have been known to drive after 2 glasses of chardonnay, and it is so wonderful to have Tesla as primary driver.

I would think it would be the owner of the vehicle. The owner is responsible for properly maintaining the vehicle and using it in a safe manner. If Waymo or Uber buy a fleet of cars then they would be the responsible party. If Joe Student allows his FSD vehicle to be used as an autonomous taxi then Joe Student should be responsible for the vehicle. Don't want to take the risk that your vehicle could cause an incident? Simple, keep control of your vehicle.

Of course, the owner could later sue the manufacturer for an inherent defect in the vehicle.

Assumption that you are in the group of MILLIONS who, when Tesla led the EV technology years ago, LOVED HIM and all the green tech. But now that Elon personally has changed his views - the extreme HATE arises. So he puts on a red hat and they turn to spewing personal HATE with threats and destruction. Even to those who purchased one of these wonderful EVs, simply because of his views. Crazies out there.

And all the other companies that Musk created and developed to improve humanity, and funds many thousands of jobs in the world. Especially in this wonderful country. Every Tesla sold in our country was built and assembled right here in the USA.

Elon Musk is associated with several companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, X Corp. (formerly Twitter), and xAI. He has founded and played significant roles in these companies, which span various industries such as automotive, aerospace, artificial intelligence, and tunneling.

....Yes, for sure - he's really full of dung -... right.

Yes to all your questions
 

Yes, it always uses directionals. Yes it uses correct lane. Yes it comes to complete stop, and waits a couple seconds. Tesla FSD is a better driver than me.

On I-95 fantastic
 

Drove from Hilton Head to Charlottesville, VA on I95. Start in right lane, pick your speed (I set it to 78 mph), when the car approaches a slower vehicle, it puts on its left directional, pulls into the left lane when safe, moves past the slower car, and when clear of the slower car puts on its right directional, moves back to the right lane when clear, and turns off the directional. It is absolutely wonderful on I95.

No, he really doesn't. He works whoever he can trick into giving him money. He doesn't care which "side" it comes from. That is the only thing he's actually any good at.

He's not an inventor, he's a corporate raider, nothing more or less.

As for the topic itself - I don't trust other people behind the wheel, I'm certainly not going to trust a machine behind the wheel. My current car has sensors that automatically slow down when a car 100 feet ahead of me slows down, and it freaks me out so I've disabled it. I can't disable it when I have cruise control on, so when I see that I'm approaching traffic WAY up ahead, I turn the cruise control off. AI isn't always correct. I'd rather take responsibility for my own mistakes, than hand that responsibility to a machine when it comes to life and limb at 70mph on Florida's Turnpike, or in a traffic jam on 441.

Driverless car
 

Have to love that ultra smart and inventive Elon Musk!!

I didn't love any of them. I especially didn't love SpaceX, Neuralink, X Corp, or xAI. Tesla showed promise but when he took it over he turned it into nothing more than a marketing strategy for waste. You can't say you're in favor of green policy, while spending billions on a rocket and rocket fuel to put an automobile into orbit. I mean, you can say that, but you wouldn't be telling the truth. You've just be pulling another Musk.

Didn’t Elon promise that self driving will be here next year in: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023? Just asking…..

He hasn't invented anything. He bought companies that created products invented by other people.

The answer is yes in most cases. I drive my Tesla Mod Y everyday, all trips in FSD. It truly is amazing in what it already does - many Tesla driving skills and reactions are better than mine. But it is still a supervised version because they are still workin on a few issues. I have owned my Tesla for a year and the amount of upgrades to the software downloaded is truly remarkable, and free. Back out of garage is not yet functional but coming. But from the time you put the car in forward motion, you can click into FSD and away you go. All the way to your destination, passing slower vehicles, it will avoid obstacles (stopped cars, people, bikes, etc) by signaling and pulling into the other lane when free, it does a super job in the roundabouts, and understands all speed signs, stop signs, and all colors of traffic lights. When you get to your destination, it will take you to a drop off point - sometimes it needs help with this - but then you can get out and it will go park itself AND when you come out, you can SUMMON the car and it will come back right to you wherever you are (to your phone). Just hitch a ride with a Tesla owner and you will absolutely flip - it can already drive better than most adults no matter what their age, always puts on turn signals, and picks its way into moving traffic like a dream. All of us in TV know that Tesla does not yet negotiate the gates correctly. But we have been assured that is coming. So when you approach the gate, you take over by tapping the brake lightly, then when you are through you just engage FSD again and relax. As far as expense, look at the new Teslas coming out (Tesla 2), for around $13,000. Too expensive still??? And there is more I haven't even touched. :BigApplause:

Maybe safer than air control towers at this point...