This video from 2016 (https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...) saying "the driver is there just for legal reasons, the car is driving itself"

This page (https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer) says "Will help us enable a new level of autonomy with regulators approval"

And many many more for Elon Musk's Twitter and various appearances.