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Germany's Federal Motor Authority recently sent letters to Tesla drivers reminding them that the "Autopilot" function is for driver assistance, not replacement. Now, Tesla is being warned against advertising the feature:
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt has asked Tesla to stop advertising its electric vehicles as having an Autopilot function as this might suggest drivers' attention is not needed, his ministry said on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the ministry, confirming a report in the daily Bild am Sonntag (BamS), said the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) had written to Tesla to make the request. "It can be confirmed that a letter to Tesla exists with the request to no longer use the misleading term Autopilot for the driver assistance system of the car," she said in a written response to a Reuters' query.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @06:05PM
> Sorry, I don't buy that.
And no one is surprised. You regularly demonstrate a failure to understand all the people who do not live in your own head.
This is just the latest example of your callow, "I'm right, everybody else is wrong" logic.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 17 2016, @07:45PM
And no one is surprised. You regularly demonstrate a failure to understand all the people who do not live in your own head. This is just the latest example of your callow, "I'm right, everybody else is wrong" logic.
Be right and we'll have something to talk about. I doubt I have any failure to understand you.
Banning stuff because people are stupid opens the floodgates to never ending imposition. If someone can't figure out before they buy a Tesla that autopilot doesn't mean that the driver can just blow off driving, then they have no business driving. Fine them a bunch of money and take their license away. That's how real world law enforcement should work. Sane laws and appropriate punishments when people do things that are insanely reckless.
But some mealy mouthed bureaucrat having the power to decide that you can't do or say something just because people are stupid? That's a blank check for the bureaucrat to ban anything they want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @08:56PM
Waiting for the crime to occur is actually a problem. No i don't mean pre-crime their asses to jail, rather that sensible prevention such as stopping clearly wrong ads or disvertising to to to masses is perfectly legitimate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @09:02PM
> stopping clearly wrong ads or disvertising to the masses is perfectly legitimate.
Sorry, I don't buy that.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 18 2016, @08:40PM
disvertising
Even if we were to assume that is a real word, no one has yet to show what Tesla is supposedly "disvertising" about. So yes, I don't buy it once again. They just didn't give me enough gullibility to cover all these baseless claims made in this discussion.