Waymo vs. Tesla: Who Will Win the Self-Driving Car Race?

Waymo and Tesla are locked in a battle to reach the holy grail of full, level five autonomous driving first. Waymo, which started life as Google's self-driving car project, has started trials of self-driving taxis in the Phoenix area. Tesla, with hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles already on the road, instead wants to upgrade existing cars with software updates to gradually enable autonomous driving for customers. The competition intensified this week as Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed his company will achieve full autonomy in 2019. Musk went as far to tell Recode that "I don't wanna sound overconfident, but I would be very surprised if any of the car companies exceeded Tesla in self-driving."