CGX car nut:

She said it is “damaging to public discussion” about advanced vehicle technologies to refer to vehicles now available for sale to the public using terms such as automated, self-driving, autonomous, on autopilot or driverless.

“It is incorrect to refer to current vehicles with driver assist technologies as ‘self-driving’ or ‘autonomous’... because creating an inaccurate impression of vehicle capabilities can put drivers and other road users at risk,” she said.

AFAIK of all the manufacturers it is only Tesla that is irresponsible enough to be doing this, all for their own marketing purposes. Heck, they will even sell you a vaporware fully autonomous driving system future update that is "supposed" to be out this coming year... Musk dixit.

On top of it they make it so it is really easy for the driver to be able use is as if it is fully autonomous and be able to drive while asleep, fool the system to think they have their hand on the wheel and do something else, etc when it is easy enough to design it so that the driver has to be necessarily paying attention to the road and the car while on auto mode. But I guess that would hurt sales and the image of autonomous driving they are pedaling, when it is just a good level 2 driver assistance system.

That is not how things should be done...


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⇒ Carlos - Porsche 991 Carrera GTS