Tesla Must Give Driver-Assist Demonstration with Every US Sale
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sounds a lot like some bureaucrat trying to make a name for themselves in the name of safety, or possibly even in the unnamed contributor that happens to also be in the car sales business
This tells me nothing about the how and why this decision was made. All it is says to me is the CEO of the company is complaining about the decision in a way that matches my comment's realization.
What is your point in this worthless "Did you read the TFA" nonsense. You are not contributing to the discussion in a positive manner at all. You just want to sound high and mighty about reading comprehension of sub-headlines that don't actually answer anything.
Edit: after using the com. trick:
"Tesla Inc. staff are now required to install and demonstrate the company’s driver-assistance technology before handing cars over to buyers in North America, a “hard requirement” that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk says will slow deliveries."
So, once again, I ask how a Tesla employee is going to do this. There are no dealerships for me to buy a Tesla and take delivery from them at that location fully staffed by Tesla employees. If I buy a Tesla, it is delivered to me directly. Again, is there a Tesla employee delivering that car that is going to show me this feature? If not, how will I get this demo?
There are no dealerships but there are plenty of stores and delivery centers.
https://www.tesla.com/findus/list/stores/United+States
> If I buy a Tesla, it is delivered to me directly.
Not always. https://www.tesla.com/support/taking-delivery
> What is your point in this worthless "Did you read the TFA" nonsense.
I find it very funny you were blaming bureaucrats for something Elon Musk did of his own volition, clearly because you did not read the article.
Ahh, so reality is nearing the marketing lies from a decade ago, finally. Neat!
October 2014 Tesla starts equipping Model S sedans with hardware that can automate some steering, braking, and acceleration functions. Although the software is not yet active, it calls the feature Autopilot. -Consumer Reports
Autopilot, how it's sold, does not equate to "tech demo" in any circumstance, context or scenario. It's marketing garbage to sell more cars by mislabeling a feature that may exist a decade later.
Now that we're a decade later, it's still not what it was promised, but ok!
This conversation is about a different feature called FSD, of which a tech demo video was shown in 2016. My car can currently do everything that was shown in that tech demo.
Have a great day!
There'll be many people posting anecdotes of Tesla crashes, and in each case, maybe autopilot was a factor, maybe not. But, in reality, autopilot is just safer than average drivers. Anecdotes of autopilot failures create an emotional response, but nobody talks about anecdotes of deaths due to people driving poorly since it's such a common occurrence. So you also have an asymmetry there.
I'd love to hear a stronger anti-self-driving argument. The mainstream anti-self-driving arguments, I find, are weak. Bring it on HN!
AFAICT there has only been one Full Self Driving death.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/t...
This site claims 42: https://www.tesladeaths.com/
They can be difficult to classify. I don't have a link handy, but I've seen reports that FSD/Autopilot disengages moments before an inevitable accident, allowing Tesla to claim that the systems were not engaged and imply they were not at fault. I haven't seen an investigation into whether this is true and, if so, whether the system was designed for the purpose of misleading claims.