Hyperbovine didn't mention FSD. Let me spell it out for you: Autopilot is beta grade software at best. It drives straight into parked trucks.

What about other driving assistance system that claim to do the same thing as Autopilot? My 2022 Hyundai Elantra has a system that drives itself on highways. GM Super/UltraCruise is available on highways. Is NHTSA gonna investigate them too? Presumably they’re no farther along in self driving than Tesla is.

Presumably they will if they're involved in a statistically significant number of incidents.

> What about other driving assistance system that claim to do the same thing as Autopilot?

Do other driving assistance systems claim to drive into parked emergency vehicles?

Yes, every adaptive cruise control system explicitly ignores stationary objects when travelling at highway speeds (the radar filters out stationary things, as it cant tell the difference between a road sign and a stopped car)

The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta, but it does call FSD this.

> The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta

That only makes it even worse.

I think the question of whether something is a beta is different than whether anyone thinks it ought to be. There’s a lot of “non-beta”, but bad, software.

Tesla thinking this software is production ready shows a complete disconnect from either reality or common morality.

the difference being that most of that software doesn't move two tons of steel through traffic at lethal velocities so maybe accurate terminology is appropriate here.

It routinely drives straight into parked emergency vehicles displaying a blaze of flashing lights.

“Routinely” isn’t even close to the truth.

It doesn't help that Musk tries to create confusion by naming things something they're not. Next thing he'll implement might be the Flying Car Update... which will turn lights green as you drive by using the 14hz infrared signal.

With the way Tesla markets autopilot [0] it's really no surprise people are using these as interchangeably as Tesla itself tends to do.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53418069

It used to say on the autopilot page "full self driving hardware". They left of the distinction that "full self driving software" is not done yet.