https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tesla-touts-self-driving-to-consumers-to-the-dmv-it-tells-a-different-tale/
...
In official correspondence with California’s Department of Motor
Vehicles, Tesla lawyers recently admitted the $10,000 option that Tesla
sells as Full Self-Driving Capability is not, in fact, capable of full
self-driving. “Currently neither Autopilot nor FSD Capability is an
autonomous system,” Tesla attorney Eric Williams said in a Dec. 28
letter to the DMV, although that could change, he added.
...
Musk has reasons to promote Full Self-Driving. The $10,000 option is a
balm to Tesla’s revenues and profits, although just how much is unclear:
The company doesn’t break out FSD sales. Musk has been selling buyers on
the idea that with autonomous technology, Tesla vehicles will appreciate
in value.
...
The DMV emails make clear that Full Self-Driving is, at best, a work in
progress. In one letter to the DMV, Tesla attorney Williams noted that
“there are circumstances and events to which the system is not capable
of recognizing or responding. These include static objects and road
debris, emergency vehicles, construction zones, large uncontrolled
intersections with multiple incoming ways, occlusions, adverse weather,
complicated or adversarial vehicles in the driving path, unmapped
roads.” As a result, Williams wrote, “the driver maintains
responsibility.”
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