Source: Nick Hobson, INC, 8/1/21

"I'm extremely confident that level 5 [self-driving cars] or essentially complete autonomy will happen, and I think it will happen very quickly," Tesla CEO Elon Musk remarked in a video message to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on July 9. "I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level 5 autonomy complete this year." Why is it such a big deal that Musk claims level 5 autonomy is within Tesla's reach? Level 5 autonomy means cars can fully self-drive without human assistance. 

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