A series of investigations focuses on whether Tesla committed fraud in its marketing of Autopilot and Full Self-Driving.
Tesla is being investigated at various levels over claims that its vehicles are “self-driving.” In this photo from December 2021, a new Tesla owner demonstrates on a closed course in Portland, Ore., how he can play video games on the vehicle's console while driving.
that would run a version of its Full Self-Driving software, shuttling passengers between destinations without a driver. Most Tesla cars today come with a feature it calls Autopilot, a suite of software that allows vehicles to keep their distance behind others, maintain a set speed and steer on highways, following the trajectory of lane lines.
make the cars “self-driving, but not autonomous.” It has made the same claim on its website, saying Autopilot and Full Self-Driving “features do not make the vehicle autonomous” and that its systems are “intended to be used only with a fully attentive driver.
“They kept saying over and over again their focus is in terms of marketing with the namesake,” Bernal said, referring to terms such as Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. “They believe that those namesakes imply a higher sense of functionality than they actually deliver.”Bernal said “their main holy grail info they were seeking was they wanted physical, written documentation in advertisement or marketing form” that Tesla was billing its driver-assistance systems as autonomous.
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