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Tesla could call it Egre-MuzzFlorp and it wouldn’t matter. The surveys showing people think “autopilot” means “can drive itself” were fatally flawed, in that th

• yupper32 5y ago
  And yet, people drive their Teslas as if it means "can drive itself". Words matter. You'd need real evidence to convince me that Tesla calling the system "Autopilot" hasn't significantly contributed to crashes.
  • mwint 5y ago
    On the contrary, we need real evidence suggesting it does. Certainly the population level crash data doesn’t support it.
• simion314 5y ago
  >The surveys showing people think “autopilot” means “can drive itself” were fatally flawed, in that they were done with non-Tesla owners. Reality check: There are videos shown Tesla drivers sleeping in the car, or using the car from the back sit, so we have proof that a subset of Tesla users are using autopilot as "it drives itself and only laws forced Tesla to add those warnings". This videos are reality, no conspiracy, no subjectivity, no fake stats... some idiots are believing the marketing and some other idiots are still defending that marketing.
  • josephcsible 5y ago
    > some idiots are believing the marketing That doesn't follow. Some people are definitely being idiots, but the marketing doesn't say that it's okay to do those things, so they're not "believing the marketing" by doing so.