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Autopilot is not advertised or described to consumers as "just" adaptive cruise.
by malfist 3y ago
Autopilot is not advertised or described to consumers as "just" adaptive cruise.
- belltaco 3y agoSource(s)?
- diggan 3y ago> Autopilot - Future of Driving - Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane under your active supervision, assisting with the most burdensome parts of driving. [...] https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/models https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/models Reading this, without any other context or knowledge about their capabilities, it does sound like the car can control itself and pilot itself automatically. The name is disingenuous and misleading, so no wonder people think the car can steer, accelerate and brake by itself even though in cases like this, it did neither.
- galangalalgol 3y agoIt can do all of those things though. Usually does. Usually is why you are there. I can't imagine anyone who has even just test driven one doing anything but frantically scanning the roadway while somehow white knuckling with a loose grip. The manual and the somewhat erratic behavior of the 3d model representing what it is aware of are not confidence inspiring. Added since this incident, the driver monitor camera, which uses ir illumination at night, disables autopilot if it decides you aren't looking at the road, has some false positives. The only thing I trust it for is stop and go traffic on a major highway. It does that reliably. I'm still scanning nervously to avoid a low speed collision. I've had it automatically engage brakes once in what it thought was an emergency when cruise control was off. I saw the person cutting me off and was about to brake with plenty of time. My wife agreed with the car...
- fxtentacle 3y ago"The car is literally driving itself" as on-screen text in one of the advertisements
- yreg 3y agoI don't know what meaningless mambo jumbo Tesla uses to describe the features and what BS Elon tweets, but at the very least Tesla is super clear about one thing: > Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.
- katbyte 3y agoElon has said it is better/safer then a human.
- yreg 3y agoElon claims a lot of crazy stuff, but do you have the original source in context? Because autopilot is not autonomous and no one claims it to be. It e.g. cannot solve crossroads or react to traffic lights. So I guess he either said that about FSD (which would still be questionable but at least not nonsense) or he meant that drivers using autopilot assistance have in general less crashes than drivers who don't use it.
- katbyte 3y agoYea he does, which is the problem. People will hear the claims and believe them, go out buy a car, then die or kill someone’s because of it.
- yreg 3y agoSo no source? Again, no Tesla owner thinks autopilot is full autonomy, since it very clearly isn't. I don't know if you have ever used it, but you would find out after driving a few meters.
- katbyte 3y agoI’m not digging up something Elon has said many times about Tesla autopilot Also right here, in this case, we have a Tesla owner who seemed to think it was, and is dead.