Germany Asks Tesla To Rename “Misleading” Autopilot Feature

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We've been saying this forever. Tesla can avoid all these issues if they just called it something that didn't imply the car can drive itself. [H] forum member spugm1r3 suggested a name change to something like "co-pilot" or the likes to more accurate reflect what the feature does.

“In order to prevent misunderstanding and incorrect customers’ expectations, we demand that the misleading term Autopilot is no longer used in advertising the system,” the letter states. The Authority on Friday issued letters to Tesla owners in the country, warning them not to operate the feature without their constant attention.
 
Should be a standards organization defining and naming it, then updating revisions. Such as "IEEE Cruise Control Ver 2.1" or something like that.
 
So the phrase automatic cruise control is fine but autopilot is not? All because people don't read the warnings that come up on the screen when they activate it?

Although in Germany some dumbass doing what some of the fools on YouTube have been doing while tooling along on the autobahn at 100+ mph might end badly for everyone involved.
 
It has been a couple of decades since I have flown a light plane, but I believe all the autopilot does is maintain heading and altitude. Basically, similar functionality to automotive cruise control. Perhaps newer GPS-enabled units have more functionality? Autopilot did not have any provisions for collision avoidance, did not take direction from ground control, did not monitor the airspace for traffic, did not account for restricted airspace, etc. People seem to be assuming the term autopilot implies more functionality that it actually does.
 
ARCHER: I thought you put it on auto-pilot!

RILEY: It just maintains course and altitude!
It doesn’t know how to find the only airstrip within a thousand
miles so it can land itself when it needs gas!

ARCHER: Well, then I misunderstood the concept.
 
Dwango said:
Although in Germany some dumbass doing what some of the fools on YouTube have been doing while tooling along on the autobahn at 100+ mph might end badly for everyone involved.
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In my experience the Autobahn in Germany seems as safe and driver friendly as the 70mph limited UK motorways, even with the much bigger discrepancy in speeds between faster and slower cars. But I noticed the other day that there is a Tesla outlet in Munich, and I wondered at the time how the autopilot would deal with the unlimited speed. Does it just sit at whatever speed you turn it on at, and how does it deal with some arschloch in a Porsche approaching from behind at 250kph with limited visibility?
 
The Lamb said:
In my experience the Autobahn in Germany seems as safe and driver friendly as the 70mph limited UK motorways, even with the much bigger discrepancy in speeds between faster and slower cars. But I noticed the other day that there is a Tesla outlet in Munich, and I wondered at the time how the autopilot would deal with the unlimited speed. Does it just sit at whatever speed you turn it on at, and how does it deal with some arschloch in a Porsche approaching from behind at 250kph with limited visibility?
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What do you mean deal with? It doesn't deal with it, because it doesn't have to. The tesla won't change lanes unless you instruct it to, with the indicator. So it will just sit on the outside lane as the porsche whizzes past. And if you instruct it to change lanes in front of it, then it's really your fault. The autopilot can only check if there is something in the lane next to you.
 
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