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A bit of both; there were self-driving cars before Tesla, but Tesla was the first to commercially field any kind of "autopilot" feature, spurring on the existing competition



What was new about their autopilot? My googling is uninformative :-\


Just that it was actually commercially fielded, rather than in some test environment somewhere


Sorry, I was unclear. I meant, new relative to the other things commercially fielded. That's the part I had thought others had.




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