The Tesla autopilot is still a taboo for many people, and it’s understandable. In a world where people have complete control over everything in their life, it is difficult to assume that many people would feel comfortable driving their car. But the problem is that many people, countries and entities are not willing to give the autonomous driving feature a try.
Despite impressive autopilot performance figures, Germany announced this week that Tesla was unable to use the word “autopilot” in any advertising, as it still requires the driver to remain vigilant during use. But the problem is that the autopilot, in any sense of the word, does not indicate that the vehicle in question can run entirely on its own. Tesla’s description of the feature also requires the driver to keep their hands on the wheel at all times in an emergency.
But the problem really comes down to the taboo subject of autonomous vehicles. To my surprise, many people outside of the Tesla community are still misinformed and misguided about the autopilot’s capabilities. Every time one of my friends or family sees a Tesla, they automatically think it is driving on its own, and the operator is sitting in the passenger seat playing on their phone.
We all know that autopilot doesn’t work that way. And even though Tesla is well above the competition in terms of autonomous driving capabilities, they still can’t drive on their own, but the company has never indicated that its vehicles are fully autonomous.
The Tesla community knows this.
However, there are groups of people and even entire countries that still seem to believe that Tesla’s autopilot claims are unrealistic and “misleading.” In reality, the company’s cars do exactly what the electric car maker says they do.
This is not the first time that a country has launched autopilot because Israel has completely banned the use of capacity in the past. However, after reviewing the case, Israeli government officials gained a more concrete understanding of how the autopilot works, and allowed the function to be used by vehicles that were capable of using it.
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In my opinion, everyone who is skeptical of the autopilot, especially those who are government officials, undergo a crash course in the feature and ride in a Tesla vehicle while using the feature.
However, there is something even more surprising to me personally about the whole taboo around the autopilot. More of this is from skeptics of Tesla and TSLAQ, but Autopilot is rarely heard of navigating through difficult road layouts in the mainstream media. It’s more about Tesla vehicles that used autopilot, which ended in accidents.
Teslarati It has covered a number of examples of autopilot navigating many interesting terrain and situations with relative ease. We also cover accidents, but we clarify how they happened. For example, last week, a Model S collided with a State Soldier and an Ambulance. However, the driver was under suspicion of DUI, although it has not yet been confirmed.
Autopilot is a way for drivers to take the stress out of driving. I know personally that I don’t really like driving. I had two car accidents in high school, I was not the driver in either case. In addition to seeing accidents on I-95 near Baltimore and other winding roads near my home, drivers scare me and I rarely trust anyone who drives a car I’m in.
I would feel safer if Autopilot were operating all the cars on the road. Not only would cars get better every day due to Tesla’s neural network, but people wouldn’t be that unpredictable with their driving behavior, and I really think we’d all be much better.
In the past, technological advances have been questioned. At one point, NASA launched a spacecraft to the Moon, and it used less technology than an iPhone. Things move forward and opinions change about something. People will eventually get used to the idea of a car driving itself, and there is a possibility that even the most skeptical of the autonomous car movement will use the ability to take them from point A to point B.
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