Tesla Owners Waiting for Self-Driving Could Get Some Company

Elon Musk sighed and snickered during Tesla Inc.’s latest earnings call, then let loose a familiar prediction.

“I know I’m the boy who cried FSD,” he said, referring to the feature Tesla has marketed as Full Self-Driving. “But man, I think we’ll be better than human by the end of this year.”

The chief executive officer’s chuckle and self-deprecation were nods to the fact Musk has been saying for a decade that Teslas are on the verge of driving autonomously. “I’ve been wrong in the past,” he said. “I may be wrong this time.”

Those caveats are meaningful for Tesla ...