Comment by wilg
3 years ago
There's no reason to apply such an implication. This was a tech demo! No one ever claimed that was something production cars could currently do at the time, nor would that make any sense, as the cars clearly did not do that at the time.
An article from the time clearly interprets it as a tech demo: https://electrek.co/2016/10/20/watch-tesla-new-full-self-dri...
Reading that article, I see lots of things which do not sound like “this worked once on a single known course”. They’re taking orders, talking about unattended cross country trips, and claiming the driver is only there for legal reasons — all of which makes it sound a lot more mature than it is.
Nonetheless, there is no claim that any current product does this, just discussion of potential future features.
That's a pretty big stretch.
If someone says, "Buy a Tesla, now with Full Self Driving! Here's a demo!" <insert demo>, then you're going to very reasonably assume that the demo is supposed to be of the current Full Self Driving feature, not of any future feature, and of a typical, if slightly polished-up, usage of that feature.
The kind of absurdly nitpicky legalistic weasel-wording you're trying to do wouldn't even fly in most American courts, let alone in the court of public opinion.
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> No one ever claimed that was something production cars could currently do at the time
"The driver is only in the seat for legal purposes. The car is driving itself." Tesla's website, at the time, and until now.