Two years until self-driving cars are on the road – is Elon Musk right?

Depending on whom you ask, your car will be driving you in less than two years – or more than 15. The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who is never shy about beating his chest, on Wednesday declared it to be just two years away . In doing so, he made one of the most confident predictions to date about how soon consumers can stop worrying about passing their driver’s tests. “I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem,” he said. “I think we are probably less than two years away.” Yet a review of quotes by automaker and technology executives in recent years shows it’s been a moving target. Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick said in 2016: “It’s likely to take a lot longer”. In February 2015 Kalanick tweeted to two journalists that he wanted his service to be driverless by 2030.