Are you making Tesla inc responsible for videos that some other people put up on the internet? How would you even propose to police this, to make it illegal to use a car in a video unless the usage is somehow approved by the car manufacturer?
- Autopilot has an option for "full self driving capabilities" (with lots of promises for the future and an unclear description what it actually can do right now)
- People buy a Tesla and indeed seem to have a self-driving car if they sleep at the wheel
- Tesla doesn’t attempt to make it right that this shouldn’t be done as far as I can tell
- Some people believe that Teslas drive themselves mostly.
Is Tesla directly responsible for these videos? Not directly, but at least they benefit from a highly suggestive product.
Could they do more to reduce the suggestive marketing? Absolutely. Do they want to? Probably not. Should they? I don’t know. That is what we’re discussing here.
I have a bit of a background with medical devices. For these, you have to make it absolutely clear what the device is for and what not. You also have to have a post market surveillance system that monitors how people use or abuse your medical device. From that perspective, Tesla could be doing more to have their driving assistant be perceived in a more realistic way.
