I think you, and maybe others, are drawing way too many conclusions from something that's ambiguous and might well be misunderstood context. Is it really unamb

I think you, and maybe others, are drawing way too many conclusions from something that's ambiguous and might well be misunderstood context. Is it really unambiguously false that "some models [can] operate themselves"? Right up until they crash or the user is arrested. Did you see the story about the guy who was "driving from the backseat", had his Tesla impounded, and immediately got another one to continue as before, on being released from jail? https://mashable.com/article/tesla-autopilot-arrest-driving-from-backseat https://mashable.com/article/tesla-autopilot-arrest-driving-... Maybe the government employees are just reading the same stuff we are.