Elon Musk on autonomy: These things happen slowly, then all at once.

Elon Musk on autonomy: These things happen slowly, then all at once.

“These things happen slowly, but then all at once. Peter Thiel has a book. Zero to One. Once you have a proof point, once you have it working, then scaling up is just a matter of time. So once it's working well in Austin, then, you know, we'll make sure it works well in other cities. I mean, there are obviously some unique cases, like downtown New York. But that's a highly unusual situation. Most cities in America are like Austin.

A Tesla that you buy today and the self-driving just costs $99 a month, will give you autonomous driving anywhere in the country right now. The question is, when is it unsupervised? In order for that to be the case, we want the autonomous car to be much safer than a car driven by a person.”

Interview with David Faber, CNBC, May 20, 2025