The staged 2016 Autopilot video does not cease to generate trouble for Tesla. After the Autopilot program director confirmed it did not reflect the reality of the software at the time – despite its disclaimer – Bloomberg discovered even more damning things about it. Thanks to internal emails, they know Elon Musk guided the video production and even dictated the debunked video introduction.
If you are not aware of the story, Tesla published a video in 2016 that shows a Model X driving from a house in Menlo Park to Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Auto, where it self-parked. The vehicle apparently does everything independently, with no visible interventions from the engineer behind the steering wheel. So much so that it brings a controversial disclaimer: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.” That suggests Autopilot is a Level 4 autonomous system, something that no automaker currently offers – Tesla included.
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