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Keep on allowing them to be called FULL SELF DRIVING(tm), and this will keep happening

Marketing like this should be banned. This implies that the car handles everything you throw at it and only requires supervision due to outdated regulations. Of course, people will ignore the current regulations to rely on, you know, their fully self-driving car to drive for them—the reason they bought the car in the first place? A fully self-driving car has the potential to be an order of magnitude better and safer driver than the average person, so yeah, obviously.

No one who has driven a Tesla with Full Service Driving for 15 minutes is under the delusion that it is a level 5 autonomous driving system. It is amazing and useful, and assuredly makes me a better driver than I am without it.

I am begoggled at the scolds who think the "deceptive" branding is sufficient to override the lived experience of driving with this fantastic (if flawed?) tool.

Or even worse: "Autopilot".

It's the other way around, though. Aircraft autopilot is a dumb thing that holds the stick for you, nothing else - you need to configure everything.

Ah yes, all of those pilots confused and tricked by a name, on machine they were trained hundreds of hours to use.

That is surely a apt comparison.

Not sure what you mean - that's just what the word autopilot means. It doesn't mean the plane does everything by itself, it means you don't need to hold the stick.

If you look at additional options of a car and one of them is "autopilot" and the other one is "full self driving", which one is going to give you full self driving?

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