by the end of 2020. The vehicles will be able to drive anywhere without any restrictions, Musk said during an event for investors, a feat no company has achieved.
Waymo, currently seen by many experts as the leader in the autonomous-driving industry, started the first commercial, autonomous ride-hailing service in Arizona in 2018, but the service only covers a roughly 100-mile radius, and each vehicle features a safety driver who can take over when necessary.
It's unlikely Tesla will meet Musk's prediction, said Mary Cummings, a professor at Duke who researches autonomous-vehicle technology. "This is a publicity stunt to take away attention from the quarterly earnings," Cummings told Business Insider before the company announced its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
Unlike nearly all of its competitors in the autonomous-driving industry, Tesla does not use lidar — which emits pulses of light to detect nearby objects — in its hardware suite. Musk has called the technology a"crutch," and said on Monday that companies who use it now
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