Tesla and rivals like Waymo and GM are locked in a battle over the future of self-driving cars

Jae C. Hong/Associated PressTesla CEO Elon Musk.In recent years, many of the companies developing self-driving cars have backed off from the aggressive timelines they had previously set to introduce fully driverless vehicles for personal or commercial use.And they are increasingly using investments and partnerships with competitors to share the immense research-and-development costs driverless cars require, as did General Motors with its investment in Cruise Automation.But Tesla has bucked both of those trends, saying that fully driverless cars will be available in 2020, powered by technology the electric-car maker has largely developed in-house.Tesla CEO Elon Musk's prediction that self-driving cars are imminent has been met with skepticism from experts and the electric-car maker has a history

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