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Tesla's Full Self-Driving will let the car drive itself with reliability exceeding a human driver by the end of 2021.

A scored prediction by Elon Musk, made on .

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Scored prediction

Misstech

I'm highly confident the car will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of a human this year.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving will let the car drive itself with reliability exceeding a human driver by the end of 2021.

Made on
2021-01-27
Outcome
Miss
Importance
3 / 5
Effect on score
-1.86

What counted as right

Status
resolved
Settled on
2021-12-31

TRUE if by 2021-12-31 Tesla vehicles could drive themselves with reliability exceeding that of a human driver; otherwise FALSE.

Criterion requires that by 2021-12-31 Tesla vehicles could drive themselves with reliability exceeding a human driver. At year-end 2021 FSD was still a supervised SAE Level 2 beta requiring constant attention; Musk himself moved the safer-than-human claim to 2022, confirming the end-2021 target was unmet. Condition not met. No conflicting credible evidence.

Sources

  • Tesla refutes Elon Musk's timeline on 'full self-driving'

    TechCrunch ·

    Source

  • List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk

    Wikipedia ·

    Source

Evidence of what happened

  • At Tesla's Q4 2021 earnings call (Jan 26-31, 2022), Musk said he would be 'shocked if we do not achieve Full Self-Driving safer than human this year' — i.e., pushing the safer-than-human target into 2022, confirming it had NOT been achieved by end of 2021.

    Evidence

  • As of late Jan 2022, FSD Beta remained a Level 2 system requiring constant driver supervision at all times and was described as 'a lot more limited than many people hoped and quite far from Musk's original promise' — cars could attempt local/highway driving with supervision but 'the capacity wouldn't be good.' It did not exceed human-driver reliability.

    Evidence

Corrections

  • horizon type: 'this year' is a deadline-inference-table phrase (→ Dec 31 of utterance year), not an explicitly stated date; deadline 2021-12-31 unchanged. No scoring impact.

Effect on the score

-1.86
How sure they sounded
90%
Outcome
Miss
Importance
3 / 5

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Tesla's Full Self-Driving will let the car drive itself wit…
Methodology version
v1.0.0
Last computed
August 2, 2026
Made on
2021-01-27

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