A worrying number of Tesla owners treat Autopilot as self-driving.
Tesla calls its bundle of driver-assist features Autopilot. It also sells a $15,000 package called"Full Self-Driving Capability" with the promise that fully autonomous driving will be enabled when the technology is ready. Tesla does not actually sell a full self-driving car, yet a lot of owners don't know this.where it found that 43 percent of 202 Tesla owners surveyed were comfortable considering their cars fully self-driving.
The Tesla stats are the most concerning. Even if the proportion of Tesla drivers who consider their cars fully self-driving is smaller than Cadillac Super Cruise owners, there are just far more Autopilot-equipped Teslas on our roads today. Tesla is also the only automaker to sell a package called"Full Self-Driving Capability" despite the fact that as of today, none of its cars are actually capable of full self-driving.
"The big-picture message here is that the early adopters of these systems still have a poor understanding of the technology's limits," said IIHS director David Harkey in a statement. There have been a number of high-profile crashes involving Tesla vehicles with Autopilot enabled, and it's not hard to find examples of drivers treating cars as fully self-driving. Data from NHTSA released earlier this summer indicates that far more than any other automaker,
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