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by agakshat 2165 days ago
Whether or not a camera-based solution will work reliably in the future is not the issue at hand here.

The issue is the vast, vast gap between the current capability of Autopilot vs. what it is marketed as, and how this false advertising can literally kill the average consumer.

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> Whether or not a camera-based solution will work reliably in the future is not the issue at hand here.

Actually, it is precisely the issue at hand:

From the ruling:

> The Munich court agreed with the industry body’s assessment and banned Tesla Germany from including “full potential for autonomous driving”.... in its German advertising materials.

So Tesla are not allowed to advertise that it has the potential to do it in the future.

sort of, but it is the gap that is the issue. Today, tesla seems so far away from that goal that this amounts to false advertising. it's so far that one can actually doubt that they will achieve it in our lifetime.

whether or not you think tesla is close, just drive a tesla on a narrow road in Germany.