> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.
[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
I mean, they are not completely wrong. Although not perfect. FSD Beta is still pretty impressive. There's no denying that:
"FSD Beta," which incidentally they told CA DMV was emphatically not full self-driving[0], hasn't been around for the vast majority of time that that video has been online so using it as an excuse is disingenuous. Plus Tesla's own words in their emails disprove this anyway.
[0] https://www.plainsite.org/documents/242a2g/california-dmv-te...
The videos that I linked are also from Dec 2020 and Feb 2021 respectively. Not from "from the last six months".
Here's one from 5 days ago (Mar 8, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafOEZrKZ1c
I linked to a raw PDF inside a viewer containing Tesla/CA DMV's emails directly from a FOIA request-response. Are you claiming the site forged these emails?
> The videos that I linked are also from Dec 2020 and Feb 2021 respectively. Not from "from the last six months".
That's literally within the last six months..? Pointing out that they're even newer only strengthens my case that comparing them to a 2016 video is disingenuous.
Have you read the actual definition of what constitutes as an autonomous mode/autonomous vehicles. As defined by California law?
From CA SB-1298 [1]:
38750. (a) For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Autonomous technology” means technology that has the capability to drive a vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator.
Autopilot and FSD Beta requires a human to supervise it. In fact, it requires you to respond to the prompts and will actually disable itself for the rest of the drive if you keep ignoring it.
Here is Tesla's response to the CA DMV's query:
"Currently neither Autopilot nor FSD Capability is an autonomous system, and currently no comprising feature, whether singularly or collectively, is autonomous or makes our vehicles autonomous."
From what I can interpret. It doesn't fit CA DMV's own definition. Making Tesla's statement factually correct.
If you don't think that's the case. How so? I'm curious how you see it differently.
[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...