Billionaire investor Ron Baron gets a first-hand demonstration of Tesla's autonomous driving tech: 'I want to see Steve Jobs' house'

Baron Capital Chairman and CEO Ron Baron recently saw first hand how Tesla’s self-driving technology is progressing with a ride near the company’s campus in California. The billionaire investor told CNBC on Thursday that he was visiting Elon Musk’s SpaceX near Los Angeles on Monday morning, meeting with engineers and finance staff. Then in the afternoon, he traveled up the coast to Tesla to see employees working on autonomous-driving technology and “the compute people.” Baron said the 12th iteration of the technology has benefitted from enormous amount of data collected...