There's no way for me to phrase this while coming across as civil, but I'm genuinely curious: does anybody actually believe Musk? If so, why?
It might happen but not in 2 years. My guess is that we won't start to see auto autonomy until 2024. It's my guess but I bet mine is better than his.
Waymo with lidar might have a chance, but the more I see the more people who've tried lidar says the pure computational is much better than the hybrid approach. Lidar only gives depth and it very error-prone. It's easy though because it requires no data to actually do depth preception but its messy.