I'm not a fan boy. I have endless criticism of Tesla, especially on the service front. And let's not even get into the build quality issues, particularly with

I'm not a fan boy. I have endless criticism of Tesla, especially on the service front. And let's not even get into the build quality issues, particularly with the body panels. I'm a fan boy of truth, reason, logic, and individual responsibility. All of which are in extremely short supply at the LA Times. On this specific topic, truth is being shaded deliberately to drive clicks. There is an obvious motivation to make people think that a self-driving car killed people, when it was really a dipshit abusing cruise control. It can happen with my wife's Audi, and probably has happened, but without Tesla in the headline, it's not ideal clickbait. Regarding Elon "promising the moon", I simply don't understand how FSD relates to Autopilot in this case. If you can read, any misunderstanding someone has about Autopilot being FSD is cleared up immediately upon activation. Alert after alert after message flashes on the screen. I grew up spending a lot of time on boats, and even worked on a crab boat as a teenager. Autopilot on boats is never mistaken for a self-driving feature. It maintains a compass heading, and nobody is dumb enough to think it does anything else. So if the marketing team has purposefully called it autopilot to hype it up, I'm in agreement the name should be changed. BUT, and this is an important BUT, I don't think it would have changed the outcome of this situation. Dipshits have caused accidents abusing cruise control since cruise control came out. The lane assist version has increased the confidence of dipshits to look at their phones while driving, and that's a conversation worth having as to what should be done about it. But that's not specific to one car company.