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Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot “experiments in public roads” (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is like arguing that an iPhone Pro isn’t a “iPhone,” it’s a “iPhone Pro.”

Call it whatever you want. This whistle blower, the press, and this comment thread are all referring to unsafe features of Tesla’s L2 automation that are currently available to the public.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Enhanced Autopilot is very popular. All the hardware is already installed on the car, it just needs to be unlocked by purchasing the subscription in the app. The Full Self Driving package is also unlockable via a software subscription. FSB will be out of beta soon, but advanced autopilot has been a popular purchase for many years. It’s one of the main reasons people buy a Telsa. It is most definitely not on “practically zero” Teslas.

As for “according to whom” - you replied to my comment about my experience with autopilot. So according to me.

Advanced autopilot did some frightening stuff during the little time I spent driving a model 3. I really wanted to like the model 3 and was expecting to whip out my checkbook, but that test drive scared the shit out of my wife and I. It made some very dangerous lane changes and the autonomous parking stuff almost hit a kid in a parking lot. The latter is definitely widely reported. I’m not the only person to have experienced that problem.