1) Autosteer and active safety features are not "autopilot", its adaptive cruise control.
2) if they think something bad is about to happen, it beeps and hands over control, thus its the drivers fault, as the system wasn't engaged at the time of the crash
3) its not their self driving tech.
2) Tesla count 5 seconds after a disengagement and count it as a fault of autopilot if a crash occurs.
3) It's part of their self driving tech, but it's different to FSD - yes.
If you ask a normal person on the street what "autopilot" means in a car, you'll get a range of answers. But the consistent opinion is that autopilot means that you don't need to concentrate. Most will say that its automatic driving, and will drive for you.
But autosteer requires concentration. Its just sparkling lane assist.
> it's different to FSD - yes.
Which is the point. Its marketing fluff. Autopilot isn't really that, its adaptive cruise control with lane assist. Thats the thing that rankles. All of this stupidity, injury, and noise comes from a marketing decision. One designed to cover up that the CEO over promised and wildly under delivered _yet again_.
They may have the worlds best driver assist features, but they have yet to produce a product that drives itself in any capacity.
The SAE is looking at a different performance hurdle between levels 2 and 3: reliability.