[NateEag]

I think you're arguing against a strawman here.

I'm not saying "people think Tesla wants you to defeat their safety mechanisms and sit in the back seat."

I'm saying "The name implies more autonomy to the average person than the system actually has."

I could be wrong - I certainly don't have statistics to back up my perception of laypeople's usage of the word "autopilot."

It still seems to me like for the average buyer the name is misleading, though.

[fastball]

It may be misleading, but my argument is that it is not misleading to the point that they deprive the people doing these things of agency, which to me is what matters. Everyone who is disregarding the warnings, weighting their steering wheel, weighting the driver's seat, etc. knows that what they are doing is not how the vehicle is intended to be operated at this time. They are knowingly pushing the limits.

If tomorrow Boeing came out and said "hey, Autopilot on the 787 Dreamliner is sophisticated to the point where the plane can totally fly itself, from takeoff to landing", would it be reasonable for all 787 Dreamliner pilots to just leave the cockpit and get wasted with the flight attendants in the back? I don't think so. So I don't understand why people are holding Tesla to a ridiculous standard that they're not holding any other company to. Teslas can drive themselves from A to B in many situations at this point. It's not false advertising to say that. What would not be OK is if Tesla was saying if you buy this car you don't need to be in the driver's seat right now (not in the future, which is how they're currently selling it).