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It's irresponsible to heavily promote "full self driving" when the reality is that the cars don't have that capability. The advertising works and some people t
by clouddrover 5y ago
It's irresponsible to heavily promote "full self driving" when the reality is that the cars don't have that capability.
The advertising works and some people truly believe in this supposed "full self driving". They start saying things like "Coming home from LA after work thank god for self drive" and "What would I do without my full self driving tesla after a long day at work".
And the result is: https://insideevs.com/news/507038/nhtsa-investigate-tesla-crash-california/ https://insideevs.com/news/507038/nhtsa-investigate-tesla-cr...
- xiphias2 5y agoIt was a TikTok accident, if you want them to stop happening without bannking TikTok, you need to ban knives: https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/tiktok-accidents-kill-even-as-ban-order-sword-hangs-over-it-1502306-2019-04-15 https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/tiktok-acciden...
- clouddrover 5y agoNo, it was overconfidence in "full self driving". Musk says this with a megaphone to his 55.9 million followers: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18510828/tesla-elon-musk-autonomy-day-investor-comments-self-driving-cars-predictions https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18510828/tesla-elon-musk-... But Tesla privately tells regulators that "full self driving" is only level 2: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39647/tesla-admits-current-full-self-driving-beta-will-always-be-a-level-2-system-emails https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39647/tesla-admits-current-ful... And Tesla privately says that Musk's comments don't match engineering reality: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-autopilot-dmv-fsd-exaggeration https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a... You can't have it both ways. The most responsible thing Musk can do is to publicly admit that "full self driving" is no such thing and change the name to something more realistic.