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It doesn't say anything about the limitations of cameras. It says a lot about the current software limitations of Autopilot. As does the owner's manual:

> Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles.

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> Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles.

Maybe then the problem is one of labelling and/or fraud.

"Come on down to Elon's Pizzeria where we're serving up what can only be called pizza!" - The place that serves calzones

Calling a thing "autopilot" that can't do trivial human driving tasks like this is perfect conditions (much less poor ones) isn't great.

To be fair, Tesla has for years now been pushing the fact that Autopilot doesn't mean you can sit back and let the car drive, and "Full Self Driving" is the term for that. Now that Full Self Driving doesn't look like it will live up to its name (not saying Teslas wont ever be fully self-driving, but the product they marketed as FSD to the first buyers of FSD are clearly never going to enable L4), they are saying FSD is just a collection of features in that direction, and "robotaxi" is the next word they seem to mean "really really self-driving." Given the nonsensical timelines Musk has been giving, they'll have to find a way to subvert the expectations of that word too.

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