Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality::Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s assertions about the technology.

  • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is an absolutely bald-faced lie. Tesla absolutely does NOT market Autopilot as fully autonomous system. Autopilot is nothing other than lane-centering and adaptive cruise control with emergency braking, and that’s it. There is zero ambiguity about it on the vehicle and in documentation. Plus, it specifically requires the driver to maintain control of the wheel.

    You need to stop, drop, and roll or jump in the nearest pool before your pants burn you to a crisp.

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      1 year ago

      Oh really? Is that why for years now, on the front page for Autopilot on Tesla’s site, was the infamous “Paint it Black” demo, where in the first 10 seconds it says “The driver only there for legal reasons, the car is driving itself”? What do you think is going to stick in the mind of a potential buyer: that video of the car “driving itself” right on the Tesla website, or the generic 5 line page that you’ll see in basically every single car with a satnav these days saying, “Please operate the car safely”?

      Regardless of how much people like you love to get into the technicalities and differences between Autopilot and Full Self Driving and chime in with “ACKSHUALLY” and insert any number of the same tired responses about how autopilot works on aircraft or what it says in the documentation, it changes nothing about how they’ve shaped the public perception of their system and how people are going to attempt and use it.

      Stop defending their shitty practices. Literally everyone else has figured out how to prevent people from abusing these systems, Tesla won’t even bother, because people like you will step in and defend it every time for some fucking reason, and as a bonus it saves them money.

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      1 year ago

      Autopilot is nothing other than lane-centering and adaptive cruise control with emergency braking, and that’s it.

      When you put it that way, the term Autopilot does sound really misleading.

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      1 year ago

      In have this product named Telephone. I absolutely do NOT market Telephone as a remote long distance voice chat system. Telephone is nothing other than a voice-recording and adaptive voice control with emergency saving features, and that’s it.

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      1 year ago

      They literally named it “autopilot”. Give me a break. You have zero business calling other people dishonest.

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      1 year ago

      Well there have people accusing Tesla of advertising their cars as much more self driving then they are. Specifically Teals has been accused of false advertising because it is what you describe, but they sell it as a self driving car.