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0 pointsgambiting5y ago0 comments

Imagine I am a John Smith that doesn't know anything about Tesla and how the tech works. I want to buy their car because maybe I like the idea of an electric car and they seem to be well reviewed. I go through the configurator, then tick the box next to the option called "Full Self-Driving capability".

In your opinion, in front of the court of law, would you consider that John Smith has purchased a car that has something called "Full Self-Driving Capability", or not? In front of the same court of law - would you consider that Tesla advertises such a thing when presenting their cars?

>>Autonomous features are not called autopilot anywhere, ever.

You are absolutely correct, other car companies call this what it is - (adaptive) cruise control. Not autopilot.

>>'Full self driving capability' is a capability, not a feature that you can turn on

Well, but the website itself says that at the moment, as-is(not in the future!) the car will be able to autonomously drive from on-ramp to an off-ramp on the motorway - so.....that sounds like a feature to me? It even has a button for it! What is it about turning it on or off?

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emteycz5y ago

Adaptive cruise control is one component of autopilot. Mercedes has "drive pilot" (and ACC is one of the features included in that package), why is that okay? To me that sounds way more autonomous than autopilot - sounds like I don't need to drive (I still need to drive with autopilot, both in a car and in an aircraft).

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