Indeed, he is going and going strong, but to what intended destination? What’s ‘going to be great & out of this world?
How much more would a car be expected to do, other than transport you from Point A to Point B without breaking down or hitting a pedestrian?
Soon, it may become common to see the human in the driver’s seat napping or dining while the car does all the work. Complete and total confidence in the machine will be a major selling point.
Read post number 2 and the videos on that link.
And a godsend to alcoholics who will deny the state DUI monies it sees as rightly theirs, along with minimizing/eliminating the legal bills and obligations that come with it. It's just you and your liver fighting for dominance.
Seriously though, this chip development combined with the NeuroLink technology Musk seems to have shelved, would enable drivers, pilots and more near-instantaneous command of controls and systems that are currently limited by the time lag between thought and the nervous system's manipulation of our extremities.
Like in the movie "Firefox" where a pilot was smuggled into an opposing country to steal a jet fighter that could do just that - instantly connect a mind to all it's controls. That's like the missing link between conventional and still-developing drone warfare: human minds in the field unhampered by transmission delay and technological obfuscation of sensory input.
How cool would it be to not only send robots to Mars but mentally inhabit them as well when missions demand more than programming and autonomous A.I., much like modern surgeons can operate on people remotely via the combination of Virtual Reality and specialized robots acting as extensions of themselves?
But right now ol' Elon would do himself a favor by putting heads-up displays into Tesla windshields so drivers wouldn't have to keep looking down and right at a console for critical information. The media system usually in that spot is distracting enough.