Tesla Forums, Blogs, YouTube, Journo’s, pundits, analysts...all seem to share my “pre-existing notions”....but good for you for being an independent thinker!

As opposed to your whole argument which can be summed up as...

Um, no.

Not at all the same thing. If they were serving you a drink of whiskey while you were behind the wheel but saying “don’t actually drink it...just smell it and look at it” that would be a more accurate analogy.

It’s not one or two youtubers.....it’s practically every video of Autopilot in use that’s been uploaded.

Musk’s wife:

Slapping a warning (that no one reads) is not absolving Tesla from responsibility here. It they knew , or should have known, it would be used in an unsafe manner they are liable.

When will Musk and Tesla marketing people stop telling the public their cars drive themselves?

Being in the seat and prepared to take over the controls is different than what Tesla is offering. Tesla’s version basically requires you to be driving but with your hands and feet hovering over the controls.

Why wont that work for the 3.5l? From what I’ve seen the EB is quite easy to tune

First customer deliveries are supposed to take place in the fall. They will have cars on the road in 2016, just not before the season started.

“and economic background”

You’d be surprised...if AVERAGES are used for all values cars have only become slightly more expensive relative to incomes:

Why did you use average automobile price but use median household income?

Uh, really? What part of “Autopilot” screams “manual control required”.

Or maybe Tesla should stop calling it “autopilot” and instead call it what it is: “pilot-assistance”?

What stands out to me here is:

There is literally zero chance there was not backups of a system like this. Someone has decided something in that DB needed to go away and they’ve nuked it and are just going to tell people there was no backup.

To his credit, it was definitely selectively edited....that was not a 7 second video...that’s just all the cameraman decided he wanted the world to see.

Not at cruising speed for either aircraft but it will work just fine at speeds seen by F1 cars.