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Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by nixass on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @06:39PM (#33350566)
Will they finally be forced to name it adaptive cruise control, as it should've been from beginning?
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Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by twblalock on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @08:45PM (#33351590)
No, because "adaptive cruise control" is a different thing that all Teslas have already. It simply refers to cruise control that will slow down if the car in front of you does. All Teslas have that for free, and it's been an industry standard term for at least 20 years. Even cheap cars have adaptive cruise control these days.

The self-driving feature also steers the car, stops at signals and stop signs, merges onto the freeway, etc. Those are all things that adaptive cruise control does not do.

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Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by robotresearcher on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:12PM (#33352192)
The standard Tesla adaptive cruise control steers the car center lane.
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Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by twblalock on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:44PM (#33352437)
No it doesn't. I know that for sure because I own a Tesla.
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Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims by robotresearcher on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:58AM (#33355416)
Here's the manual page for the feature, described as 'building on' the ACC. You have to opt in to a beta feature, so 'standard' is not strictly correct. But my Model 3 follows center lane without Autopilot.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-69AEB32...

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