I respect and admire Elon Musk, but I know he is overly optimistic and he is not always right.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/elon-musk-on-his-future-outlook-and-why-technology-needs-dedicated-hard-work-to-keep-improving/

Cross-country driverless trips on the horizon

With thousands of Tesla cars on the road gathering data for the company, Musk is confident a Tesla vehicle will be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York “fully autonomous” by the end of the year.

Discussing the concept with Musk, Anderson asked if users would be able to “sit in a Tesla without touching the steering wheel, tap in “New York,” off it goes”.

“Yeah … [in] November or December of this year, we should be able to go all the way from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey.”

Musk also predicts the cars will be able to change routes, not being practised on just one route ironed out with Tesla data.

“I’m actually fairly confident it will be able to do that route even if you change the route dynamically,” he said.

“So it’s not sort of limited to LA to New York. We could change it and make it Seattle-Florida, that day, in real time. So you were going from LA to New York. Now go from LA to Toronto.”