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To be clear, the story here is that a couple of consumer groups have written the FTC to complain about Tesla. That might be enough to get something started, but
by danso 8y ago
To be clear, the story here is that a couple of consumer groups have written the FTC to complain about Tesla. That might be enough to get something started, but public complaints != formal investigation. That said, the FTC did successfully order VW to pay $1.2 billion for its diesel shenanigans:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/05/federal-judge-approves-ftc-order-owners-certain-volkswagen-audi https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/05/feder...
I get that people respect and are excited by Musk's vision and work, nevermind the cars, but I feel even Tesla fans should be able to agree that the current Autopilot homepage, which is going to be the main info source for Autopilot for anyone not in possession of the owner's manual.
Someone at Tesla made the deliberate decision to have the page's headline and very first words be, "Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars", followed by a paragraph of text about full-self driving, followed by order buttons for Model S/Model X.
The next thing on that page is a video. It's the first and only video on the Autopilot page, and it is a 2016 self-driving demo, that Tesla has (as far as we know) not been able to push to production nor do extensive testing (assuming they test in California, which requires a mileage report).
When you buy a Tesla, aren't the purchase options for Autopilot and (future) full-self driving separate options, at a cost of $5000 and $3000, respectively? Yes, buying AP is required to buy FSD. But my point is that Autopilot exists as its own separate feature completely independent of FSD.
So to belabor the obvious, why is the only visual demo on Tesla Autopilot a 2016 alpha demo of full self driving? On Youtube I can find plenty of amateur demos of the AP features. What possible reason is there for not creating separate pages for Autopilot and FSD, other than to have consumers conflate the two systems?