Comment by acdha
3 years ago
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.
I don't know what to tell you, man. There was no "current Full Self Driving" feature at the time, in 2016. That option literally had no features until 2019 when some stuff began getting enabled via software update.
Edit: Here is the blog post the video was embedded in: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...