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If anything, it's underreaction - not only Tesla should disable the autopilot on all their models temporarily, there should be heavy fines for both allowing it on the roads in this state and for calling it autopilot in the first place.

>>It's on consumers to understand this difference and pay full attention while driving.

Then this is a crazy assumption to be making. Like literally crazy. Pilots are trained over and over again to pay attention - and they still fall asleep during flights. With cars, even engineers who are employed and paid(!!!) to pay attention have fallen asleep while testing level 3 autonomy[0]. Expecting a regular customer to both understand the difference and pay attention is wishful thinking. The lowest bar for this technology that we should be aiming for is "the vehicle should never under any circumstances fail to observe and react to a stationary object in front of itself". Simple as that. If Tesla's autopilot cannot meet this bar it shouldn't be on the road, no matter how many times safer on average it is than a regular driver.

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/7730/ford-engineers-are-fallin...