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And a big part of what causes the general public to think that is Tesla's egregiously misleading marketing. See Tesla's page on "autopilot" here: https://www.t
by txcwpalpha 8y ago
And a big part of what causes the general public to think that is Tesla's egregiously misleading marketing.
See Tesla's page on "autopilot" here: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
The first (and only) thing you see at first is "Full Self Driving hardware on all cars", and a blurb about how all Tesla's have the ability to be self-driven. It does not mention here, nor anywhere else on the page that the current implementation of autopilot in Tesla cars is
not fully self-driving. The video just underneath the headline is a video that shows a car using self-driving capabilities, not autopilot.
The entire rest of the page is like this as well. It talks at length about how Tesla's have the capability to drive themselves, and hardly ever mentions that self-driving and "autopilot" are not the same thing. There is only one single sentence, buried in the middle of the page, that mentions that drivers must remain alert and ready to take control.
And again, this is on Tesla's home page for their autopilot function. This is the first page that comes up when you Google "Tesla Autopilot". It's really shameful for Tesla to have marketing materials like this.