This is my opinion, too. Their "autopilot" feature is a glorified driving aid. It's not self-driving. It's supposed to help with driver fatigue, and you're supposed to keep both hands on the wheel. If it makes a mistake, that's okay, because you're driving the car, right?

Traditional cruise control without radar will maintain the speed you asked and it won't stop for emergency vehicles, but we don't blame that. Even though the "autopilot" feature does more automation, you're supposed to drive the car in an identical fashion with identical attention compared to traditional cruise control.

But safety is still what matters first. If you're sending a freeway-speed land missile into motorcyclists and police cars, I don't care if you were driving a 90s Civic or a car with automated driving features. The car hit someone. Fix that problem first, then figure out who to blame later.

In my option, until we have cars that are guaranteed to function as a completely autonomous experience, and the manufacturer of the car doesn't tell you to keep your hands on the wheel, you're still driving it. It's your responsibility. You can still steer, brake, change lanes, evade, etc. That's on you. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who thinks otherwise might as well blame their heated seats or radio station.

I understand that Tesla would be improving their software, and I agree with this, too. It's not great that they are fudging things quite a bit by pushing the self-driving rhetoric. They should focus on this, and it should be improved. But I still think that negligent drivers are at fault.

Statistically they're still safer than human drivers but nobody writes articles about your car dodging the woman drifting into your lane while eating a bowl of cereal and applying mascara on her morning commute.

AI driving is only as good as it's sensors.

While most other companies use LIDAR, Musk switched to video cameras because it's cheaper.

Which is why Tesla "FSD" is worse than competitors.

Autopilot is terrible and the fact that they advertise it as a reputable system is abhorrent. And yes, I own a tesla.

"This thing that does not exist and nobody has any idea how to make it" will totally be safer than human driving.

You know what is safer than human driving and we know how to make? Trains.

AI driving will probably be safer one day, but there is no real data today that demonstrates its current state is. At the same time we're getting lots of examples where it fails at the most basic stuff.

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Ah yes. The ol' billionaire's approach to safety regulations and features. Cut them out to generate more profit.