Tesla reportedly asked highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes::Elon Musk’s Tesla has faced investigations into Autopilot, including an ongoing NHTSA probe of more than 800,000 Teslas after several crashes.
Since everybody knows that problems just magically disappear when their consequences are hidden.
Especially really smart businessmen!
The original New Yorker article is an incredible read. I recommend it
Is it? Admittedly, when I was reading it the first time I had to skim a lot because I was in a rush and had to put my phone away.
I want to get back to it, in fact I will now because it’s my lunch break, but my first thought was that it was kinda tame. Yeah the stuff about the gov not liking their dependence on his services was good, but General Milley sounded like they got along great. It was weird.
I don’t see the problem for Tesla. Regardless of whether the autopilot is active or not, the driver is responsible.
The driver is fully responsible, but Tesla are also making the big bucks with misleading marketing of how good their driving assistance is. So it’s more profitable to keep people unaware of its actual capabilites.
Legally yes, but in my opinion when you market your car as self-driving you do share a certain level of responsibility if it self-drives into an accident.
