Also FSD is offered as a subscription so you can “try it out” if you are cautious. Do people really see this as an issue?
There are MUCH worse things on the road than FSD driven Teslas - what consequence do people think will occur?
"Full self driving" is an explicit term - "self driving" means the car drives itself. "Full" means it does it fully. It couldn't be any clearer what the term means.
Terms like "blue motion", "quattro", "mach-e" are just made up branding terms that would mean nothing to anyone without knowing about them before hand.
FSD doesnt mean anything to anyone either, as it’s never been done before.
Its because only Telsa does it. Name an example of another manufacturer using a term as explicit and misleading as "full self driving".
You don't see other manufacturers calling ABS "fully tailgating safe".
BMW: BMW Personal CoPilot systems
Audi: Traffic Jam Pilot (which they class as Level 3 autonomous driving, higher than Tesla class both autopilot and FSD).
This isn’t an opinion… this is fact. People hate on Tesla out of ignorance of the automotive industry.
Some more facts, Tesla make: - the safest cars (no qualification required) - most efficient production cars - most advanced “auto pilot” but they class it the lowest level.
The nonsense in HN threads talking about safety issues in Tesla or FSD need to go look up cruise control crashes in any other manufacture.
(I don’t own a Tesla nor am I invested. I do work with almost all the major OEMs in my day job)
By contrast, car features generally have non-misleading names - "anti-lock breaking system", "cruise [speed] control" etc. "Full self driving" goes beyond the pail any way you look at it. It is a very explicit name: it means very specifically that a car can drive itself, with no human intervention whatsoever. Even more, Elon Musk, the CEO of the company, has repeatedly claimed to buyers that FSD will allow the cars to work as robo-taxis that can be allowed to work for their owners while their owners are otherwise occupied. This again very explicitly says that FSD doesn't require any human intervention whatsoever.
The fact that, after realizing that it obviously is nowhere near close to such a thing*, they started putting in warning that Full Self Driving is in fact not full self driving in any way shouldn't excuse them. They have obviously repeatedly lied and misled buying customers, and the name has to be changed.
*(and won't be in the next 50 years, most likely, until we actually start seeing AGI or something)