Founder and head of Tesla Motors Elon Musk became an Honorary guest at the computer Conference of NVIDIA Corporation, with which it has long-standing business relationships, and shook Hall provocative statement: as soon as cars-robots will become sufficiently reliable and safe drivers will be outlawed. Don't want you to imperfect people managed to dvuhtonnoj machine of death! Did not know that he had responded in the audience, but, obviously, the reaction was so hot that the Mask was forced to go into explanations.
He later wrote in his Twitter: Want to dot the i. Tesla has always supported and will support people-drivers, but public opinion could turn against them, opolčit′sâ when robots will become safer person. Hope that prior to the ban never came. In the Hall of the same creator of private space rockets and electric cars added quite the reverse: imagine the elevator. The first elevators necessarily was a lifter, people had no idea how to do without it. But technology improved, and the man turned out to be unnecessary.
What else predicts famous for his bold insights Musk? Well, for example, he believes that in the near future, all new cars will be robots by default and manual control will have to be ordered as an option. But to robomobile took to the road in droves, need legislation, and bureaucrats eager behind technology for several years.
Whether the switch behind the wheel. that is, excuse me, in the passenger seat of a robot Mask itself? And here and there! I always gonâû at its Model S P85D in the hot Insane and did not intend to refuse from it, "said delightfully irrational businessman.