This was precisely the type of driving I figured would be easy to automate - rather than deal with urban settings, pedestrians, bicycles, etc.
Shame they don’t have LiDAR or some other form of actual distance/range sensing.
Unfortunately, Tesla seems to have something to prove when it comes to LIDAR, and stubbornly refuses to adopt the technology, despite crashes and even deaths that have occurred, and general industry understanding that it's the enabling technology for driverless cars.
Is it legal to create a two-ton machine with admittedly beta-quality software, and a sensor stack that is known to be insufficient; and allow it to autonomous roam around town, crashing into things and killing their drivers? Apparently that is fine in the eyes of the law. Is it unethical? Society seems to be deliberating this one. I hear a lot of "the ends justify the means" style thinking in this area.
Either way, this should embarrass the hell out of Tesla engineers. I used to feel sorry for them, but it's been long enough that they should know better.