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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by cortic on Saturday January 18, 2020 @08:34PM (#22088728)
That's a nice bit of advertising, but; They cheat. When the car detects an unusual or difficult situation developing it prompts the driver to take over. This means that all the really tricky bits of driving are done by the human and all the easy bits are done by the machine..

There was a competing study done against cars with similar price/age/safety equipment that didn't have the auto pilot option and Tesla caused considerably more accidents.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by spookthesunset on Saturday January 18, 2020 @09:41PM (#22089001)
It also lets them blame the driver for their failure. Tesla is more than happy to share the cars data logs to “prove” it wasn’t the fault of Tesla... remember though, according to Tesla marketing the driver is only there because the lawyers say so....
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