Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “California tells Tesla to stop calling it “Autopilot””.
The california dmv accuses tesla of making misleading claims about autopilot. What this is hilarious? How many times have i called this like how many times honestly yeah i’m? Actually i actually am surprised that it took this long, i’m shocked it took this more than anything. It’S just the amount of time that it took yeah. That’S that’s stunning! I, for a second, i thought you were like making up the headline because of how many times you said, tesla is under fire from the california dmv for untrue or misleading claims about autopilot and full self-driving.
The main things the dmv has a problem with are the terms and wording that tesla uses, saying autopilot and full self-driving are terms that do not represent the capabilities of the system. No, no there’s no way that happened, the use of the words full self-driving capabilities on their website, particularly the words the system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat. Um yeah yeah.
That’S pretty mis-representative, according to the dmv, the way tesla advertises their systems. Okay, this is sort of redundant, but that’s fine um, although tesla does have disclaimers on their website. The dmv says that these only contradict the advertising instead of curing the violation. Yeah.
That makes sense. Um dmv seeks to require tesla to provide more accurate terms and descriptions, and more and better consumer education of the product, capabilities and limitations is what the dmv said in a statement to market watch yeah good yeah. This should have happened many many years ago, yeah back when tesla’s autopilot and full self-driving, whatever was even less capable than it is now. The number of i mean, i don’t have to tell you guys the number of times we’ve seen people asleep at the wheel in their teslas is utterly unacceptable and in it yes, okay, it’s supposed to like get you to not do that and it communicates that you Shouldn’T do that and stuff like that, but if you tell someone that something can do, if you tell someone that this machine has a certain capability they’re going to bypass that type of stuff at any possible opportunity, remember when people were shoving oranges in their stealing steering Wheels because it was like detecting it as a hand or whatever like people are going to do.
People are going to get away get around sorry. Those types of limitations, um alex’s, uh contribution here he wrote up this topic – is, on the one hand, tesla has the best self-driving existence yep, but in practice it feels like handing your keys over to a teenager, that’s texting and driving. In my opinion, they shouldn’t call it self-driving until it actually is right. Now it’s just really good driving assistance. Um i find tesla in particular kind of terrifying, given that they push out beta self-driving features to be tested on public roads and there’s no hacking way. I’M trusting a car to drive me until it has been proven, reliable and much better than the average driver for years and that’s fair enough, which again is all like yeah as as far as my understanding goes.
They they have the best self-driving and that’s that’s great and that’s fantastic, and they should. They should be proud and happy about that um, but yeah it shouldn’t it shouldn’t be uh, falsely advertised, that’s all which is true about like everything. So yeah not just not just related to this yeah floatplane chat’s talking about when red bull got sued, for it not actually giving you wings yeah, i mean if that went through little yeah. There’S no way. Tesla should be calling their cars full self, driving or autopilot. Yeah because yeah sometimes with stuff like the red bull thing uh, because i think there was a skittles one too back then at around the same time, skittles said something in their advertisement, but it wasn’t like as interesting as gives you wings. Oh, i don’t remember um, but i think there was yeah.
I think there was a few of them back then, but like in those types of situations, it’s like well yeah, obviously not, but in this situation it’s not and obviously not, which makes it way worse. In my opinion, funny hat says: any pilot will tell you autopilot will get you killed really quickly in an airplane, with thousands of feet of space around you clear, okay, so maybe maybe autopilot is, is somewhat defensible, but the full self-driving nonsense needs to go obviously, and The average user, the average joe public interpretation of the word autopilot – is more inspired by science fiction, films than it’s inspired by actual airplane autopilot, yep correct taste, the color of the rainbow. If i remember quickly yeah, i i don’t know, i don’t remember that .
