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Tesla's approach to safety seems to be 1. Overstate the capabilities of features, 2. Technical ensure that customers retain liability. It allows them to do two
by Traster 7y ago
Tesla's approach to safety seems to be 1. Overstate the capabilities of features, 2. Technical ensure that customers retain liability. It allows them to do two things simultaneously - claim an amazing step forward in autonomous driving, whilst in reality delivering a relatively trivial feature to the customer. The problem is when customers behave how they've been told to behave by Tesla's advertising, and, for example, summon their car in a busy parking lot. I don't want to be overly negative about this, but I thought Tesla was telling us that we'd be getting fully autonomous vehicles by the end of the year, here we are in Q4 and we've got a feature that'll driveat walking speed, doesn't correctly react to traffic or pedestrians and requires constantly line of sight. It just feels to me like Uber before they replaced Travis - constantly repeating the same mistakes until it becomes an existential threat. This is not a company that is showing the level of responsibility that we should expect from someone trying to sell completely autonomous vehicles.