The video is staggering, going super fast before an intersection, with no visibility, a blinking signal, and clear stop sign in sight. I hope FSD got better
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And the distinction is what?
I'm not serious of course. There are huge swaths of the public whose eyes would glaze over if you tried to explain it, and that's my point.
Everything else that you might be reasonably misled by? Puffery and the official position is that you really should have known better.
My minivan would happily do the same thing (but without the telemetry).
Part of the issue is that there are no regulatory guidelines for what's appropriate, and regulators have not stepped in to ensure things are as safe and free of misuse as reasonably possible. Industry standards/norms exist, but they have no legal weight and Tesla ignores them to push the line in ways that I'm personally not thrilled with.
Just to be clear, Tesla says that the person doing the summoning should be able to see the car at all times and be able to force a stop if necessary when using Summon. At least this was the case the last time I used it.
I’m not necessarily giving a pass to Tesla here, but it doesn’t seem reasonable to throw all the blame on a manufacturer when a user doesn’t follow directions and misuses a function.
A debate could be had about whether functions should be allowed if a certain (high?) percentage of users will abuse it, but that’s a tricky discussion imho.
Almost all of the public examples I’ve seen of Autopilot or Summon being unsafe were when people were misusing it.
There are definitely examples when these functions don’t work (there’s one spot near me when my car makes the wrong choice consistently), but it’s trivial to correct if one is paying attention like you’re supposed to.