Technology

I do agree the name and Teslas general advertising of drivers assists are a bit misleading.

But this is really on the driver for not paying attention.

Since when has autopilot, especially in 2019, ever had the ability to deal with “cross-traffic” situations? It always has been a glorified adaptive cruise with lanekeeping and has always been advertised as such. Literally the same as any other car with LKAS. Tesla’s self-driving software wasn’t released to the public until 2021/2022.

Meanwhile about 120 people died in traffic related accidents today in the US.

The driver was also not even paying attention to the road so the blame should be on him not the car. People need to learn that Tesla's version of autopilot has a specific use case and regular streets is not that.