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Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Plenty of idiots using a cruise control system and trusting their lives to beta software.

Using it exactly as it was marketed doesn't make you an idiot.

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

The car prompts you every single time you enable this system to keep your eyes on the road and be prepaired to take over at any moment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's the fine print. He's talking about the marketing - the influencer videos, Musk's tweets of those videos, Tesla's own marketing videos, etc.