They’re taking legal liability when you are driving a straight line on selected freeways going less than 40mph and with a car in front of you to follow during the day. This doesn’t demonstrate advanced capability, just limited scope.
Tesla’s system is purportedly far more advanced — do you believe that they could offer the same safety promises and legal protection for that limited scope if they wanted to?
(leaving aside for the moment, why they wouldn’t want to)
I’m not sure, I think it’s technically feasable given the current state, I expect that scope has pretty good safety numbers on current software, since it’s such a narrow scope.
But they would probably want to do all kinds of extra training and validation and fine tuning on it first rather than just blast out the current version.
If you look at their wording, they are saying they are ready to defend themselves and their software, not that they will protect anyone from a lawsuit.
The owners manual even explicitly states you are always the operator under drive pilot.
> The owners manual even explicitly states you are always the operator under drive pilot.
Just a straight up lie. The manual states:
> The person in the driver's seat when DRIVE PILOT is activated is designated as
the fallback-ready user and should be ready to take over control of the vehicle.
> As soon as the driver steers, accelerates or brakes, the responsibility for
driving and safe operation of the vehicle, including compliance with traffic regulations, will be returned to the driver.
IDK how you got that from what I quoted other than just wishcasting it to be the case. There is a 10 second handover window after which the car goes into an emergency stop procedure if the user hasn't taken control.
They're putting their money where Musk's mouth is.
And next year it will go up to 85kmph, close to highway speeds.