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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality (www.reuters.com)

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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality::Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk's assertions about the technology.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nobody did indeed say you should trust your life to cruise control.

But Tesla did claim you could trust your life to autopilot because "the car basically drives itself", which it obviously doesn't.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Tesla didn't claim that. Musk claimed their early FSD "basically drove itself" in what appears to have been a staged demonstration. This accident and lawsuit are about Autopilot, which is a completely different system.