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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by rictic on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:09PM (#26858771)
> Theae stats are often quoted by Musk and Tesla to suggest that driverless cars are here and safer than human drivers, and the only thing preventing them are regulators.

That's surprising, I hadn't seen that. Could you link to an example?

Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by legolas2412 on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:22AM (#26863035)
This video from 2016 (https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...) saying "the driver is there just for legal reasons, the car is driving itself"

This page (https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer) says "Will help us enable a new level of autonomy with regulators approval"

And many many more for Elon Musk's Twitter and various appearances.

Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by rictic on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:09PM (#26866745)
Yeah, and in the part of that second link that directly addresses the question:

> *Will the FSD Computer make my car fully autonomous?*

> Not yet. All Tesla cars require active driver supervision and are not autonomous. With the FSD Computer, we expect to achieve a new level of autonomy as we gain billions of miles of experience using our features. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions.

That clearly states that there is still a technical challenge to overcome which is prior to any regulatory issues.