They are, but its not the same thing as saying there is a defect.

The failure is extremely rare, and the monitoring is not that difficult, like all things just a matter of getting used to. Also in scenarios like stop and go traffic which is the most annoying you don’t even need to because it is pretty straight forward.

You should point out that the NHTSA report is asking for “alleged defect” not just “defect”. Aka, at this point the NHTSA is not claiming that there is any such defect.

Autopilot is ready for the road just fine. But like all things in life, the transition is full of luddites who try to sensationalize every little thing. Not to mention people taking advantage of the situation.

You mean after that government got caught rigging the process in ULA’s favor? And only had to give up those contracts because they got caught?

That makes 0 sense. It isn’t like he was retweating videos of people abusing autopilot, he was retweating videos where the autosteer feature in autopilot help prevent a crash, which it does.

The system has NEVER been marketed as fully autonomous.

It is legal, it is a level 2 automation system. Yes, Tesla has the best level 2 system of any competitor, but it is still a level 2 system.

Maybe we should ban ALL cars on the road until Level 4 is ready. As you said we simply can not trust people to pay attention. The large amount of crashes every year with humans driving is proof of that.

Right, because the media can make even a non-issue hurt a stock, especially one like Tesla. Which we have seen before.

In the case where they are ordered to look into a new technology, yes they do. Again, their interest here is to see failure and make policy and testing around handling it. But it will not result in any assigning of blame, penalties or any direct regulation.

I am 99% sure that it would not. Again, they are interested in collection of data mostly at this point.

But again, recently, these agencies have been tasked with researching these technologies in general. They are not interested in a single incident event. They are more interested in creating standards and testing procedures.

I doubt it will provide any heat. I think most of these investigations are simply for data. Many of these agencies are tasked with making tests and regulations concerning cars. So they are interested in incidents like this to help frame their policies.

But why should bad journalism get a pass?

The thing is, there is no indicator that it is even a defect in the product.

Musk is right, the information is immaterial. What next, requiring every automaker to make a public statement about every single crash that their vehicle has ever gotten into?

The truck did 1 lane change, then attempted a 2nd one right off the bat, which almost hits the Tesla which adjust itself quickly. There was no time to respond one way or the other for a human.

There is a radar, but based on what was said, the radar in some cases can see the trailer as a floating sign.

That is where AI comes in, which go beyond code and follow self learning. While code does provide some overrides here and there, it is mostly about maintaining standards.