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    Elon Musk claims a million Teslas will drive themselves in a year. Safety advocates have concerns

    by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times Apr 22, 2019 4 minutes

    Tesla, under pressure to show it can generate profits on its main business of making electric cars, on Monday trumpeted a custom-designed computer chip to let its vehicles drive themselves.

    Even with the new chip - which comes with all new vehicles and can be installed in older ones - Teslas still aren't yet fully capable of driving without human intervention. They now have "all hardware necessary," said Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive officer. "All you have to do is improve the software." The software will be updated over the air to allow full self driving by the end of the year, he said.

    Tesla's aim is to create a fleet of self-driving cars that can be

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