Elon Musk Quotes

I probably have a very controversial view on autonomous driving versus anybody else in the auto industry. I don't believe that it makes any sense for an automaker to develop autonomous driving.

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

The promise of autonomous vehicles is great.

The energy that's going into autonomous vehicles is very significant, and we expect to continue to invest there.

Driverless cars are a great thing.

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.

We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

I'm a firm believer that autonomous driving is coming.

One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative system coming to Cadillac in the 2016 time frame. It will allow you to drive on the highway without touching the wheel or pedals, both at speed and in stop-and-go driving.

The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars.

All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society.

All the technology going into self-driving cars is robotic technology. It's not automotive. That explains why some of the traditional automotive players didn't develop this technology.

We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software.

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.