Tesla releases video of fully autonomous Model X electric car

Video follows announcement that all Tesla cars built from now on will contain components required for self-driving

Tesla announced on Wednesday that from now on all of its electric cars will be built with the components required to turn them into fully autonomous vehicles at a later date. Now chief executive, Elon Musk, has released a video showing what that really means.

The video shows a Tesla Model X driving out of a garage, picking up a human driver - who is required to be in the driving seat for the car to legally self-drive in the US - and then driving itself around some public roads, navigating junctions and highways before returning to a parking lot, letting out the human driver and then going off to park itself.