Don’t try this at home
And here’s why you don’t want to rely on autopilot !
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I don’t think they should legally be allowed to call it autopilot.
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This is insane.
For those who can’t read or understand Chinese 
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“Tesla’s marketing for Autopilot is certainly confusing, possibly even deceptive regarding the level of capability it has; that said, there are plenty of warnings for drivers to remain alert, so there’s potentially plenty of blame to go around here.”
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I guess Model 3 is not an aircraft, so technically you may be right.
I agree. I’m pretty old-school though. My M340i has a great backup camera, parking sensors, blind spot monitoring, etc. I still do a mirror and/or shoulder check. I may be in the minority though. I also own a business that helps people with technology. I work with people who can barely operate a phone, yet they are expected to figure out “autopilot” on their Tesla.
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The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates.
Pretty clear that it’s not “self driving” machine.
Just like the LH community likes to point out, if you don’t read & understand contract, it’s the signer’s fault…
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If only it had LIDAR to detect an object in the way! It’s a shame ole’ Musky doesn’t believe in LIDAR. It’s not as if the irresponsible folks buying his cars are keeping their eyes in the road anyways. Lord knows the cameras alone aren’t enough.
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My S60 has Advanced package with pilot assist and some other nice things, but I’m old school too and Volvo doesn’t call it “autopilot” or “semi-pilot”.
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Pretty clear that calling anything “autopilot” that is not is deceptive, no?
Read the quote from Jalopnik above, if you have not.
No different from dealer ads “Zero due at signing” with an asterisk for tax, title and fee - it is not zero due at signing.
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Who needs it? 
BING BONG CRASH 
Coming in a little hot
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Musk said LIDAR was too expensive, which is not the case anymore.
If you watch some of the close calls people post on Youtube using the autopilot cameras, I think its clear that the cameras don’t have the resolution needed to see the edge cases.
It’s not just the sensor. It’s making the sensor work well in the real world that is the issue.
Mobileye has it figured out. See 0-1:30 . This is why I’m somewhat bearish on Tesla.
Tesla has redundant compute but not redundant sensor modalities, like Mobileye will have.
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How is it different than ProPilot? Or something similar from other manufacturers.
I understand the sentiment & I actually agree that there needs to be a standardized naming scheme across the industry.
My sarcastic response was more directed towards our community’s “usual” stance of putting the burden on the end user to read & accept the t&c etc…
You don’t see how? “Auto” is the key word.
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