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Elon Musk reveals Elon Musk was wrong about Full Self-Driving


For nearly nine years, Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest

Musk said on a conference call Wednesday evening that Tesla cars equipped with so-called Hardware 3 will need an upgrade before they can support unsupervised self-driving software the automaker is still developing. But the company has now repeatedly capitulated on its 2016 claim that every car it was building had the hardware required to one day fully drive itself with the flip of a switch — an unfulfilled promise has been central to Tesla’s valuation for years. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.

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