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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by ninalanyon on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:01AM (#44765892)
Every time I engage Autopilot in my Model S it admonishes me with a notice in the instrument cluster that I am to keep my hands on the wheel. If I don't make it clear the car that I am there and holding on by applying a little rotational force to the wheel at least every fifteen seconds the car will remind me.

So how does one conclude the that the car is capable of driving itself? Or is the version of Autopilot in the car in question different in this respect?

Autopilot is not autonomous driving and isn't marketed as such; Full Self Driving (FSD) is an extra cost option.

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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by samrus on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:09AM (#44766615)
Does it remind you thay it cant stop at an intersection, or brake to avoid hitting objects? If it did then the person might be more responsible. But elon wouldnt have let the engineers put that in because it goes against his grift
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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by gamblor956 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @01:00PM (#44769236)
That was the result of a recall which required Tesla to include that warning. Prior to that Autopilot did not include any warnings.

This accident occurred in 2019, several years before the recall.

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