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Re:Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misus... by jsight on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:19PM (#22417560)
> Most people don't and trust Autopilot way too much because it's touted as self driving which implies a level of autonomy that the Tesla system

Everything about this line is unsupported supposition.

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Re:Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misus... by rtkwe on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @05:52PM (#22418398)
It doesn't take many videos of people asleep at the wheel [0]or slamming into the back of stationary vehicles to extrapolate from what is already know about attention while driving which is that people pay way less attention than they should for controlling multiton devices moving fast.

[0] https://twitter.com/DakRandall/status/1170777292768985089

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