Elon Musk has promised that fully self driving Teslas are one year away, every single year, for almost a decade. 2016, a coast to coast auto…

Elon Musk has promised that fully self driving Teslas are one year away, every single year, for almost a decade. 2016, a coast to coast autonomous drive is coming next year. 2019, a million robotaxis on the road by 2020. 2020, basically solved. 2021, 2022, 2023, the line never changes and the cars still cannot drive themselves unsupervised. Real people paid real money for a feature literally named Full Self Driving, on the promise it was nearly here. Some of them are dead. There are documented crashes where the system was engaged and the car drove into things a sober human never would have. This is not a visionary being early. Being early means you ship eventually. This is a decade of selling a product that does not exist by describing it in the present tense. The most valuable car company on earth was built in part on a sentence that has not been true a single time he has said it.

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-06