TECH - Elon Musk Says 'Safety First' Over Convenience As Tesla Scales Up FSD To Fulfill Autonomous Driving Future | Benzinga
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday reiterated that safety is the priority as the company scales the abilities of its full self-driving (FSD) driver assistance technology towards autonomous driving.
What Happened: “Safety first, then the convenience features,” Musk said on X. The CEO was responding to Sam Pullara, CTO at venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures.
Pullara listed the different features he would appreciate with FSD going forward in a post on X including moving or pulling over to let people pass if they are traveling faster, identifying and avoiding bad drivers, and allowing for breaking the law at stop signs.
Though a majority of drivers do a few things on the road that are technically illegal, U.S. auto safety regulator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will not appreciate it if FSD did the same, Musk said in his reply.
“Some of this stuff like the rolling stop ...