Well sadly the first casualties was a man that made 3 millions view on YouTube with a video called "Autopilot saves Model S" months before his fatal accident... http://youtu.be/9I5rraWJq6E

At that time I don't recall that Tesla made any statement about how dangerous it was to deliberately push the limit of the system to entertains viewers.

This might have contributed to make him overconfident about autopilot.

RIP

> At that time I don't recall that Tesla made any statement about how dangerous it was to deliberately push the limit of the system to entertains viewers.

Yeah who knows. I think Musk retweeted his video. Hindsight is 20/20. Tesla can still move forward and learn from this.

That's going to hurt in the lawsuit, isn't it?

I'm not a lawyer, so, I don't know

It doesn't matter what they advocate for, it matters the perception of the technology. Just because Tesla doesn't explicitly say that it's a perfect system and says that the driver has to be aware at all times doesn't mean that actually happens, and with a lenient time frame without hands on the wheel it's not surprising that drivers would essentially give control to the car.

What I'm saying is I don't think it has anything to do with calling it autopilot, and even less to do with it not meeting the technical definition of autopilot.

People are using it in this way because they're able to, and they'll continue to do so until they're not able to. I think we agree here actually. The name isn't the problem really the issue.

I couldn't agree more. Autopilots of any kind have always required supervision. Tesla doesn't call its car self driving and there are many warnings that it isn't. Ultimately, the system would be called Boris and people would still use it irresponsibly.

Based on the times I've seen people staring down at their phones on the 280, it's definitely much higher than 0.