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> Autopilot may be a marketing name and people can voice their opinion about it as not being appropriate or whatever but where did the notion come from that "Au

> Autopilot may be a marketing name and people can voice their opinion about it as not being appropriate or whatever but where did the notion come from that "Autopilot" means it works on its own without human? When Tesla Marketing videos said "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself". You can find this quote all over the internet. Since this is Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26858525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26858525, you can see people discussing this and proving that the video said that. Quote end-quote. Tesla literally said that and posted it all over the internet. Elon Musk then came on after that video was aired and said they'll have "Coast to coast Full-self driving" in 2017, and repeatedly double-downed on that claim.

noxer 5y ago
I didn't say anything about Tesla, I dont care about Tesla. The word was "Autopilot" and the claim was that people interpret the word wrong. There is zero evidence that this is the case. I've never talked to anyone who doesn't know what the word means and no one ever expressed that it means "drives/flies without a human". Not even Tesla said that. The "Full Self-Driving Capability" that they promised and never delivered was not named "Autopilot" yet people keep bring up that "misleading" word as the reason why people crash cars. It makes no sense.
- dragontamer 5y ago
  But you're posting in a Tesla thread, where a Tesla-car with the Autopilot feature crashed into a stopped car in front of it. I have to imagine that your postings here have something to do with the accident that this entire topic is about.
  - noxer 5y ago
    Because the claim that people dont understand the word comes up in such threads. Other than that my post had nothing to do with the thread/article it was a reply to the parent post stating the claim.

noxer 5y ago

I didn't say anything about Tesla, I dont care about Tesla. The word was "Autopilot" and the claim was that people interpret the word wrong. There is zero evidence that this is the case. I've never talked to anyone who doesn't know what the word means and no one ever expressed that it means "drives/flies without a human". Not even Tesla said that. The "Full Self-Driving Capability" that they promised and never delivered was not named "Autopilot" yet people keep bring up that "misleading" word as the reason why people crash cars. It makes no sense.

dragontamer 5y ago
But you're posting in a Tesla thread, where a Tesla-car with the Autopilot feature crashed into a stopped car in front of it. I have to imagine that your postings here have something to do with the accident that this entire topic is about.
- noxer 5y ago
  Because the claim that people dont understand the word comes up in such threads. Other than that my post had nothing to do with the thread/article it was a reply to the parent post stating the claim.