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‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr... (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you serious?

Autopilot

Full Self Driving

"Our cars will travel from the east coast to west coast of the US without any human intervention by 2017"

"Your model 3 will be like an automated taxi earning money for you while you're not using it!"

Etc.

Tesla is always making out like their cars can drive themselves and it's just the law that's preventing cars from driving themselves about unaided.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Where are you getting that from?

Here. I'll show you mine:

https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview

Scroll down to the feature add-ons.

Full Self-Driving Capability

$12,000

Your car will be able to drive itself almost anywhere with minimal driver intervention and will continuously improve

All functionality of Basic Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot

Autosteer on city streets

Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control

The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates.

Maybe I'm a bit out-there but the bolded section seems to indicate to me that this is something I need to pay attention to the road while using, and am told this before I add the feature to the car before checkout.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

A small print disclaimer doesn't undo years of marketing your cars as fully self driving