Elon Musk: In the Future, Human-Driven Cars May Be Illegal

Human drivers may prove unacceptably dangerous.

by Rod D. Martin
March 18, 2015

During his keynote presentation at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, Elon Musk raised a few eyebrows when he said we may be entering an age where people choose to ban human-driven cars because they aren't as safe as automated transportation.

From Mashable:

"In the distant future," he said, "They may outlaw driven cars because they're too dangerous."

This future is not actually as far off as you might think, Musk said, adding that he considers autonomous vehicles to be a "solved problem" and that the larger issue is making the software and hardware reliable enough to conform to safety standards that regulators will expect. He predicted regulators won't come on board until at least two to three years after self-driving cars become safer than human-driven ones.

While we may be a few years from regulatory approval for driverless cars, Elon thinks we may at some point outlaw driven cars. However, he cautioned later that though this might happen, he does not supp…