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Watchdog growls at Tesla for spilling death crash details: 'Autopilot on, hands off wheel'

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: Damage control mode

"and how many of the rest of us want to be involuntarily put in harms way?"

I can't believe anyone has downvoted this point. If it was your loved one that got mown down by a computer system with a deliberately mis-leading name (I see no reason to mince words here. The two syllables "auto" and "pilot" are (i) already used in the aviation industry to refer to a fully autonomous system with a good safety record and (ii) clearly used in this instance for marketing reasons.) would you just shrug your shoulders and say "C'est la vie, or fin de la vie in this case."?.

Tesla are selling something sounds like it is a fully autonomous system but which actually will kill people if used in that way. Adding some fucking small print in the instruction manual does not let them off the hook.

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