SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc is “very close” to Level-5 autonomous driving technology, its chief executive, Elon Musk, said on Thursday.
Musk added that he was confident Tesla would attain basic functionality of the technology this year, in remarks made via a video message at the opening of Shanghai’s annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).
(Reporting by Brenda Goh in Shanghai, Yilei Sun and Yingzhi Yang in Beijing; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
