Last week, we reported an accident in China that took place while the driver was using the Autopilot feature on his Tesla Model S. The accident was a fender-bender, and both cars drove away after it occurred. The Model S sideswiped a vehicle that was stranded on the leftmost lane of a highway.
However, Tesla’s Autopilot system still got the “mandatory flak” from Internet users, and the driver of the vehicle blames both the American company, and its local sales staff.
Luo Zhen, the 33-year-old programmer that was in the driver’s seat of the Tesla Model S, has claimed that the sales team promoted the system as “self-driving,” and that this is why he expected the automobile to be capable of avoiding the impact alone.
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