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It’s not autopilot, it’s Autopilot. They’re making up their own branded feature called Autopilot which is nothing like what any reasonable person would consider
by paulcole 4y ago
It’s not autopilot, it’s Autopilot. They’re making up their own branded feature called Autopilot which is nothing like what any reasonable person would consider to be autopilot.
If you go back through the years here, you’ll see increasing care they use with their language:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/Tesla.com/autopilot https://web.archive.org/web/*/Tesla.com/autopilot
Look at the snake oil they were peddling in 2016:
> All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.
Not only was this clearly false in 2016, it’s clearly false today, nearly 6 years later.
- Someone 4y agoFrom the viewpoint of Tesla’s marketing and legal departments, the nice thing about that phrase is that there’s no way to prove it clearly is false. Their claim isn’t about their cars; it’s about the fact that some software can be created that gives their cars “a self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver”. Even if they never manage to deliver such software, that’s no proof such software doesn’t exist.