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It's a little awkward when as of today (and has been for years), Tesla on its website has wording around FSD saying "The driver is only in the seat for legal purposes. The vehicle doesn't require it."



"The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions."[0]

"Currently neither Autopilot nor FSD Capability is an autonomous system, and currently no comprising feature, whether singularly or collectively, is autonomous or makes our vehicles autonomous"[1]

[0] https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

[1] p30 of https://www.plainsite.org/documents/242a2g/california-dmv-te...


That text is for a technology demo of full self-driving, not for the production car.

Every sales page related to autopilot has visible warnings regarding driver attention and do not suggest you can sit on the backseat in any form...




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