having "self driving" in the name is probably the cause of the confusion. As far as non technical people are concerned, tesla soft ware for driving the car engaged. Whether it was one product or another is immaterial to the fact that tesla software caused the crash
But this is hacker news so for us, here, the distinction is important.
Which is what this whole absurd subthread is about. Redox pointed out that the article attributes the issue to the wrong product and you all are saying that it doesn't matter.
Well perhaps you are not interested in the topic and it doesn't matter for you. For me it matters.
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Imagine an article about a Google Chat issue was posted on hacker news. Redox99 points out that the issue is actually in Google Meet. And then you, bob and boucher appear and you reply that it doesn't matter which one it is, both are google chat apps. Well I believe it matters a lot.
The sub thread you replied to started with the poster literally saying “as a consumer…”. It was not a discussion of the technical minutiae, but of the overall situation