Self-Driving Cars Could Be Decades Away, No Matter What Elon Musk Said

Experts aren’t sure when, if ever, we’ll have truly autonomous vehicles that can drive anywhere without help. First, AI will need to get a lot smarter.

An autonomous car by General Motors subsidiary Cruise on a test drive in San Francisco in 2019.

Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/picture alliance/Getty Images
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Christopher Mims

In 2015, Elon Musk said self-driving cars that could drive “anywhere” would be here within two or three years.

In 2016, Lyft CEO John Zimmer predicted they would “all but end” car ownership by 2025.

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