[hyperbole]

Tesla has likely built 80-90% of an autonomous car enough to fool those who use it into believing it can be trusted. But as with all engineering endeavors that suffer from the Pareto principal its going to take far longer to get close enough that it's better than a human whose paying attention.

Its foolish to oversell thru marketing the capabilities of AP, as it's fairly easy to conflate reliability with observed behavior.

As long as the system mimics enough of the capabilities of full autonomy and it's oversold as such customers will underestimate the risks and become victims of an unfinished product

[Latteland]

tesla's system is lane following which has a radar that knows when the cars in front of you slow down or speed up. that's pretty much it. it's not an autonomous car in general. mine is very reliable for cruise control adjustment, good but not awesome for lane detection (falls down in bad rain for example, works well in clear weather). it tells you this, via display, it knows if its working. I can't understand these fools who thinks its some super advanced system. it really does little more than follow lanes and adjust speed based on detection of cars in front.

[hyperbole]

Video from 2016 showing exactly that:

https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...

If you use this to market your car without any caveats, don't be dismissal of some people who might read into that your car is capable of self-driving, when in reality its clearly absent of anything of the sort.

[greglindahl]

Some Tesla owners are being dismissive of attempts to paint Tesla owners as being unaware of the actual capabilities of Autopilot, based on Tesla's marketing.

Owners see marketing occasionally. Owners see the reminder that they have to stay alert 100% of the time each time they turn on Autopilot. Owners get the alert that they need to put their hands back on the wheel. And so forth.

If you've got data about owners being confused, please share.

Meanwhile, next time an owner offers anecdata about what they personally have learned about Autopilot's capabilities, perhaps you could respond to that, instead of telling the owner that they're being dismissive.

[Latteland]

well probably fool was too strong when they call it "autopilot". once i explain to people (well, programmers) what the tesla system is, they go oh, that seems possible, tesla made it out like there was some magical ai running on the car.