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Tesla Autopilot engaged in 2018 California crash; driver's hands off wheel: NTSB
- ineedasername 7y agoAnother indication that Tesla negligently over-sells, over-markets its autopilot, and under-educates buyers. (as the Jalopnik article mentions, buyers are referred to the manual for such details, which hardly any car buyer, of any car, ever, reads) I like Tesla! I want them to succeed, I'd love to see them as a full contender in the auto-sales marketplace and a leader of EV vehicles when they go mainstream. But these failings, along with the ridiculous promise of full autonomy in the near future, are incredible irresponsible.
- cynix 7y agoI always read every page of the manual for anything I buy. Even if you don't want to do this for mundane objects like your toaster, I feel you should at least do it for a 100k car.
- ineedasername 7y agoI agree! But most people don't read, and car manufacturers know this, so placing very extremely important information, potentially life threatening if not understood information, in the manual without further pro-active education of the consumer, at the same time that they market it with verbiage that leads drivers to over-rely on auto-pilot... well that doesn't seem very not-negligent to me.