Musk predicts superhuman safety levels in driverless car AI ‘this year’

Elon Musk

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has predicted that the manufacturer will achieve autonomous car artificial intelligence ‘far in excess of the safety level of a human’ within the year.

“Obviously I could be wrong, but we are actually quite close to achieving self-driving at a safety level that is better than human,” Musk, pictured, stated.

“My best guess is that we will get there

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