[clarle]

FWIW, Elon Musk did say the following on Twitter:

> To be clear, Tesla is strongly in favor of people being allowed to drive their cars and always will be. Hopefully, that is obvious.

> However, when self-driving cars become safer than human-driven cars, the public may outlaw the latter. Hopefully not.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/577946893646364673

So his goal isn't to shore up support for legislation against non-autonomous cars anytime soon.

[closetnerd]

He made that clarification because he was met with unexpectedly large audience which was critical of his statements.

He was quite obviously supporting future legislation against humans driving cars:

> In fact, in the distant future, I think it's probably going to be... people may outlaw driving cars, because it's too dangerous.

> You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine.