• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Those are really crappy names. How about “driver assist” and “supervised self driving”? Drop the “supervised” once they’re ready to market it as real self driving.

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      7 months ago

      FSD is called Full Self-Driving (Supervised) nowdays.

      Autopilot can be seen as a misleading term but that has more to do with people not understanding what autopilot on airplanes actually does which is quite similar to what it does on Teslas aswell.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Autopilot isn’t being marketed to aviation enthusiasts nor is it a plane so it doesn’t matter how autopilot in planes works it matters what the perception is. They could have used a more appropriate term like advanced cruise control