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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has discussed the company’s ambitions to build a self-driving car on more than one occasion, and now he’s revealed a bit more about its plans. After reports today about a job listing for an Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Controls Engineer, he spoke to the Financial Times and confirmed the company is working on a form of autopilot in-house. Expressing his opinion that fully autonomous cars may be a bit too difficult to achieve right now, he said Tesla “should be able to do 90 per cent of miles driven within three years.” Other major car companies — Mercedes, GM, Volvo and Continental, just to name a few — have projects for either full or partial car self-control, but they’re still under development for reasons both technical and legal. Also hanging in the balance is Google’s autonomous car project, although from Musk’s statements it appears Tesla has decided to go its own way on the technology. The three year target is an ambitious one, but we’ll put this one somewhere between Iron Man and Hyperloop on the Musk scale.

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Just how far can the all electric Tesla Model S go on a full battery? Well, earlier this year, Tesla Motors founder and CEO, Elon Musk, did reiterate his intentions to perform a cross country trip – not on a fossil fuel powered ride, but rather, in a Tesla Model S. In the past, such a trip would have required a fair amount of planning, many hours of charging as well as many other different stops along the way, but considering the technology that is available these days with free Supercharger fast-charging networks around, it is not that daunting a task.

Musk did tweet that his Los Angeles to New York family road trip plans have already been finalized, and the entire trip is expected to last less than a week. Six days to be exact, where a mere 9 hours of charging are required in order for the Tesla Model S, with its passengers and some luggage within, to make that cross country trip possible. Of course, the 9 hours of charging will not be done at one place, but rather, it will be spread across several stops, taking approximately 1.5 hours of charging each day. Musk claims that his only stops would be for eating or sightseeing, so he will wrap those around while juicing up his ride.

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