Elon Musk (Photo : REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)
As tech giants and carmaker firms are working on driverless cars, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk disclosed at a conference on March 17, Tuesday, that self-driving cars would become the norm eventually and that human-driven cars could be outlawed decades from now, according to CNET.
Musk said his remarks at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. As he foresees the transition from the common people-driven cars to the latest self-driving cars will be take about two decades from today, he claims the consuming public will soon take these cars for granted "in a short period of time."
Also, Musk explained that the biggest challenge they are currently facing with self-driving cars is that, a computer can control the car easily at a lower speed rate between 5-10 mph and on highways, but admits that urban environments are much tougher. Musk explained albeit they could be overcome in a few years, even with those challenges.
Google has been testing self-driving cars around Bay Area roads for a few years now with the hope that the public will use them within the next two to five years. Other major Silicon Valley companies like Apple Inc. and Uber have also been told to be working on self-driving cars, San Francisco Global reported.
Automobile manufacturers are very much working on a big scenario to the future of these driverless cars. Earlier this month a Mercedes-Benz' self-driving concept car was recently spotted within San Francisco streets and was circling the area for several weeks now.
