I suppose it was just a matter of time until a technologist as guided by the future as Elon Musk would want to add driverless-car technology to his his Tesla Motors line, though he does object to the jargon that currently attends the function. An excerpt from Bloomberg:

“Elon Musk, the California billionaire who leads Tesla Motors, said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google. Bloomberg’s Alan Ohnsman reports on Bloomberg Televisions’ Bloomberg West.

Musk, 41, said technologies that can take over for drivers are a logical step in the evolution of cars. He has talked with Google about the self-driving technology it’s been developing, though he prefers to think of applications that are more like an airplane’s autopilot system.

‘I like the word autopilot more than I like the word self- driving,’ Musk said in an interview. ‘Self-driving sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. Autopilot is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.’”