I personally think the issue boils down to their use of the term "Autopilot" for a product that is not Autpilot (and never will be with the sensor array they're using IMO.)
They are sending multiple signals that this car can drive itself (going so far as charging people money explicitly for the "self-driving" feature) when it cannot in the slightest do much more than stay straight on an empty highway.
They should be forced to change the name of the self-driving features, I personally think "Backseat Driver" would be more appropriate.
> the issue boils down to their use of the term "Autopilot" for a product that is not Autpilot
It is literally an autopilot. Just like an autopilot on an airplane, it keeps you stable and in a certain flight corridor. There's virtually no difference except for Tesla's Autopilot's need to deal with curved trajectories.
Well, they still need to avoid the collisions more reliably, apparently. Once they do it perfectly reliably I will add it into the list of the things it does differently from an airplane autopilot. ;)
Autopilot is precisely the correct term -
An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators.
They are sending multiple signals that this car can drive itself (going so far as charging people money explicitly for the "self-driving" feature) when it cannot in the slightest do much more than stay straight on an empty highway.
They should be forced to change the name of the self-driving features, I personally think "Backseat Driver" would be more appropriate.