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mendip_discovery:
Considering that becuase of America cars with cruise control had to come with a warning that you must remain in your seat, I remeber talked of a person putting cruise on and going to the back to make food and crashed as the assumed it would take care of that but I can't be sure that isnt just a dig at the American culture.

So I am surprised that Tesla has been allowed to use the term based on the common interpretation of it. But I have never looked at the manuals to see what it says. Though I see many videos of people going on about the self driving nature of these cars and that doesn't help with the muddy waters we are already in.

Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on December 18, 2023, 11:10:40 am ---descriptive name for what the Tesla ones do (& is used by other manufacturers) is "Driver Assist".

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Fair enough, but "driver assist" is something every manufacturer has and means stuff like adaptive cruise control and maybe keep-on-the-lane (no overtaking or anything). What Tesla has is in awkward position: significantly more advanced than most "driver assist" systems, but still way too far from true autonomous driving. It's hard for the marketing folks to honestly sell without either under- or overselling it.
MT:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on December 18, 2023, 05:24:07 am ---
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on December 17, 2023, 11:40:31 pm ---A great step forward would be not to call it "autopilot"!

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I think the term is fine. Tesla's system is already more capable, relatively speaking, than what is classically meant by an "autopilot". (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot if unfamiliar with the term.) However, Tesla has clearly failed to communicate (quite obviously on purpose) what they have is not autonomous driving or even a prototype of it; "unofficially" overselling the feature is the problem, not the name which is really the most honest part of it IMHO.

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A German court ruled that Tesla cannot talk about 'full potential for autonomous driving' or 'Autopilot' in its ads in the country.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33338288/germany-tesla-autonomous-driving-court-ruling/

Still Tesla German owners manual 2023 talks about auto pilot:
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/de_de/GUID-101D1BF5-52D2-469A-A57D-E7230BBEE94B.html

Tesla appealed but was overruled 2022:
https://teslamag.de/news/exklusiv-web-werbung-tesla-autopilot-fsd-option-deutschland-zulaessig-51722

Tesla forced to buyback cars:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/autopilot-makes-tesla-buy-back-another-ev-in-germany-it-s-the-third-one-until-now-195163.html

A pilot are not requested by Boeing/Airbus to "always hold their hands on the steering" when autopilot is on. It is well known a jet these days can take off, fly and land all by it self with no intervention of a hominid or monkey.
wraper:
Stainless steel panel production.

tom66:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on December 18, 2023, 12:55:48 pm ---Considering that becuase of America cars with cruise control had to come with a warning that you must remain in your seat, I remeber talked of a person putting cruise on and going to the back to make food and crashed as the assumed it would take care of that but I can't be sure that isnt just a dig at the American culture.

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That's literally a skit in Anchorman 2...


One of the funniest moments in the film IMO.  The setup for the following carnage is perfect, even if the whole thing is entirely predictable.  But it's kinda low-brow comedy in general so... yeah, don't expect much more.
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