In the case of Twitter/X, 'Elon mode' was simply a testing configuration. I don't see why it would be any different in Tesla.
Having a testing configuration doesn’t strike me as a problem, but it seems like it would be very important that the testing configuration be managed very carefully, and only applied to the appropriate vehicles that are intended to be operated under testing conditions.
Why do people fail/refuse to grasp this really simple thing?
National Highway Transportation Administration is responsible for public safety in these matters, and will investigate the situation, and they will make a determination.
Tired of Elon's psyops shit.
The main difference is as far as I know those have a fairly segregate gap between cockpit infotainment and safety critical vehicle functions, including separate CAN buses and CAN gateways.
With Tesla I am not sure as they seem to have thrown away every lesson in Automotive design and started from scratch.
In this case, however, the question is irrelevant - the FSD system is clearly part of operating the vehicle, it’s safety relevant and not there for infotainment.
All their marketing (I'm sorry, I forgot, Tesla doesn't do marketing) is all about the safety of FSD/AP and their vehicles in general. The reality is very much "we have to be dragged kicking and screaming into most safety improvements".
And it's a rather shitty system in general considering my hands are always on the wheel and I have to constantly manually apply resistance.
So maybe don't hate on a theoretical 15m window. Sounds kind of amazing. It's not like the car doesn't constantly demands you take over outside of this nag...
tesla.com/autopilot doesn't hide this. The video that's the main feature of the page (from many years ago) starts out saying the person in driver seat is only there for legal reasons.
It's ridiculous what they've gotten away with.
2016 it was fifteen minutes. 2017, it was reduced to five minutes. And from then down to where it is now.
> One of the findings was alarming. According to the NTSB, an agency that rarely investigates auto accidents and usually spends years delving into plane crashes: "[d]uring the last 41 minutes of [Joshua] Brown's trip, the Model S was in Autopilot for 37.5 minutes …. Brown had his hands off the wheel for a total of 37 minutes during the time the car was in Autopilot."
> "The Model S displayed the visual warning 'hold steering wheel' seven times during the trip."