Up until Sunday, the word Autopilot and the Chinese phrase zidong jiashi appeared on Tesla’s Chinese language website.
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He says the Tesla sales representative he spoke with when he was considering buying a Tesla took his hands off the wheel during a test drive to demonstrate how the car could drive itself. The Tesla client posted footage from his dash cam that revealed that the Model S did little to avoid the impact. Autopilot is designed to keep a Tesla vehicle driving at a certain speed and within the lane markings, without crashing into other vehicles. The driver admitted to being distracted by electronics during the crash. The vehicle had crashed to another vehicle that was simply parked on the side. Please provide your prediction (s) in the comment section below. Last month, Tesla’s autonomous driving “Autopilot” feature remained in focus as it led to a fatality. In one of those incidents, the driver of the Tesla was killed, and although investigations are still ongoing, reports suggest that he wasn’t paying attention to the road. The company says drivers using Autopilot must keep their hands on the wheel and be ready to take over.
Autopilot problem aggravated when a similar crash was noticed in China, leading the company to officially change the name of its feature on its website. Notably, the company has been under scrutiny since a man was killed in Florida while his car was in Autopilot. Though there were no casualties in the recent accident but the accident prone software has raised many questions recently. However, it does not have a lot of places to have its cars serviced. He blames TSLA for overstating the feature. Now, both terms are removed from the page.
On the one hand, lofty goals seem to be working for the fledgling carmaker-it’s growing faster than its more-established competitors General Motors and Ford. Let’s not even start with net income on a GAAP basis, as those numbers might not be positive for quite a while.
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“We want to highlight to non-English speaking consumers that Autopilot is a driver-assist function”, she said.
