Tesla's lawyers would have this covered. It sounds to me like a bunch of shorts who are sweating Telsa's recent moves to cut production costs and raise the price of the Model S. I hope they get their comeuppance.
Tesla’s lawyers should’ve advised against marketing a glorified ADAS (and AP 2.0/2.5 was even a pretty bad ADAS for quite a long time) as an autonomous driving solution.
They market it as it could be a RoboTaxi, Musk has been saying “autonomous driving is a solved problem” for 4 years now at every opportunity he gets this isn’t really ideal.
Tesla’s marketing a side the real problem is the concept of Level 3 autonomy in the first place (on the open roads).
Humans can’t operate in a “hands off only” mode and it’s either all in or all out.
I’m really hoping that we could get to a good real world all conditions L4/5 (these are the same level of autonomy) before level 3 ones kill enough people to push back autonomous driving 3 decades.
Don’t get me wrong in controlled, restricted and enclosed environments for example truck yards, ports, large factories, airports, power stations, mines etc. Level 3 makes a lot of sense if you have predictable routes where trained operators know when they can be hands off and when they cannot be.
But this doesn’t and will never work on real roads with real people because eventually everyone gets “comfortable” with such a feature especially when it appears much more capable than it actually is and when Musk and many in the Tesla community make it sound like the only reason why your Tesla isn’t working for Uber whole you are at work is because of pesky regulation.
Tesla only has SAE 2, stay in lane and brake for obstacles (sometimes). They did a few videos of hands-off self-driving in controlled conditions on quiet roads, so they were trying for Level 3, but never really got there.
