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The wireless update of vehicles to Version 7.0 of Tesla software enabled properly equipped cars to steer, switch lanes, and manage speed on its own. A number of Tesla drivers immediately took to the road to test the limits of Autopilot—taking their hands fully off the wheel and seeing how far the car could drive itself down highways, country lanes, and suburban streets.
That led to dangerous situations and near accidents, as evidenced by videos made by drivers (while driving) and posted to YouTube.
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Drivers Pushing Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities
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(Score: 2) by subs on Thursday October 29 2015, @11:35AM
Whatever BS disclaimers they put in the manual, the name "autopilot" implies that you can trust it (for the most part), like in an airplane. While the pilot ultimately remains responsible for monitoring the autopilot's performance, he/she no longer needs to keep their hands directly on or near the controls and occasionally glance away to perform other tasks, such as reading a chart or checking systems performance. Now of course an autopilot is a much simpler problem to solve for aircraft, which is why it was done long ago. But if Tesla wanted to make it clear that this thing isn't what people imagine an autopilot to be, they should have called it something else, like "lane-keep assist" or "driving-assist" or something similar. Not "autopilot", which literally translates to "self-driving".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @01:15PM
they should have called it something else, like "lane-keep assist" or "driving-assist" or something similar. Not "autopilot",
Yes!
which literally translates to "self-driving".
What? People drive [merriam-webster.com] cars, ride [merriam-webster.com] motorcycles and horses, and pilot [merriam-webster.com] aircraft and ships.
I'm pretty sure this means that either the Tesla marketing department is out of control or the Tesla engineers accidentally an OTA update to the cars that was intended for a LearJet or Hyundai container vessel instead. I am quite positive though that it means the people who trusted this technology are total morons.