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Tesla has a perverse incentive not to "wake up". It's advantageous to overpromise than to admit the hard fact that self-driving (in a strict sense) cars may potentially not be feasible for a long time.

Doesn't help that the company is owned by a person who defines himself as somebody who "sends people to Mars".

Tesla's marketing department is well aware too.

It's customers that needs to wake up.

Customer's can't. It's unrealistic to expect it across the board. This needs regulation which is too slow at the moment.

Tesla employs the Norman Doors of false advertising. In the lasting tradition of "Free" (not free), Tesla gave us "Autopilot" (requires manual operation at all time) and "Full Self Driving" (requires alert driver at all time).

If HN were to be believed five years ago SDC should have been everywhere by now.

And if some users are to be believed it is here today, and already safer than ordinary drivers, even if that requires some mutilation of the available evidence.

I’m thinking that Tesla is in a mood to reprogram its army, not wake themselves up.