Musk has promised that within a month Tesla can autonomously move along the highway, and three years later - everywhere Bashny.Net

September 23 at interview with a Danish newspaper Borsen Elon Musk said that in the next month should be completed beta testing of autopilot for cars Tesla which will allow them to automatically move on the highway and some other simple way. But after about 3 years Tesla will be able to move in a fully autonomous mode, although, according to Musk, would have to pass still 1-2 years is the moment when all permits the Commission to endorse these robomobili.

According to the mask, Denmark shows good performance on the use of renewable wind energy, and it would be logical to become a leader in the use of electric vehicles (Musk calls them "environmentally friendly transport").

Musk said that as long as this trend is not observed - according to him, of electric vehicles on the roads of the country less than 1% of the total transport, and urged the government to strengthen subsidizing the industry. All the more so on their own electric cars can be part of the energy storage system - and the task of storing the resulting renewable energy is a key in this area. Musk did not forget to mention your project home batteries, which should reach the market in late 2015.

Asked about competition from other manufacturers (for example, Porche and Audi in September, presented their concept electric), Musk said that This is consistent with the philosophy of the company. Their mission is to have been on the roads as much as possible of electric vehicles - or, in his opinion, the future of humanity is very bleak .

Talking about the further improvement of technology, Musk promised that in the next year or two of his Tesla able to overcome the bar to 1,000 kilometers traveled on a single charge (the current record is 800 km), and by 2020 this figure could reach 1,200 km.

Speaking about the distant future, the automotive industry, Musk suggested that in 20 years, and most of the cars will be electric, and autonomous. According to him, now there are about 2 billion cars, and by the time their number could reach 2, 5 billion.

Elon Musk visited Denmark to test the operation of the Danish branch of car company Tesla and negotiations with government representatives.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/263168/