How hyped?

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

According to this article, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk is a "hypester," a king of hype. Musk said, "We know exactly what to do, and we’ll be there in a few years. We’ll take autonomous cars for granted in quite a short period of time."

A Lyft co-founder says, "Autonomous vehicle fleets will quickly become widespread and will account for the majority of Lyft rides within 5 years. By 2025, private car ownership will all-but end in major U.S. cities."

Author Lambert Strether says these quotes demonstrate extremely hyped excitement over  self-driving cars. He quotes a couple of experts who think the technology is "not even close."

The director of robotics for Carnegie-Mellon University says, "With autonomous cars, you see these videos from Google and Uber showing a car driving around, but people have not taken it past 80 percent. It’s one of those problems where it’s easy to get to the first 80 percent, but it’s incredibly difficult to solve the last 20 percent."

This post is based on this article. For an attack on Tesla's safety claims, go here.