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Hyperbovine didn't mention FSD. Let me spell it out for you: Autopilot is beta grade software at best. It drives straight into parked trucks.

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What about other driving assistance system that claim to do the same thing as Autopilot? My 2022 Hyundai Elantra has a system that drives itself on highways. GM Super/UltraCruise is available on highways. Is NHTSA gonna investigate them too? Presumably they’re no farther along in self driving than Tesla is.

Presumably they will if they're involved in a statistically significant number of incidents.

> What about other driving assistance system that claim to do the same thing as Autopilot?

Do other driving assistance systems claim to drive into parked emergency vehicles?

Yes, every adaptive cruise control system explicitly ignores stationary objects when travelling at highway speeds (the radar filters out stationary things, as it cant tell the difference between a road sign and a stopped car)

The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta, but it does call FSD this.

> The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta

That only makes it even worse.

I think the question of whether something is a beta is different than whether anyone thinks it ought to be. There’s a lot of “non-beta”, but bad, software.

Tesla thinking this software is production ready shows a complete disconnect from either reality or common morality.

the difference being that most of that software doesn't move two tons of steel through traffic at lethal velocities so maybe accurate terminology is appropriate here.

It routinely drives straight into parked emergency vehicles displaying a blaze of flashing lights.

“Routinely” isn’t even close to the truth.

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