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Just in case you're not aware of, Tesla has a long history of fatal cases driven by Autopilot[1] with the first case below:

    This entire incident occurred without any actual input or action taken by the driver of the Tesla vehicle, except that the driver had his hands on the steering wheel as measured by Tesla’s Autosteer system. Indeed, the Tesla Model X was equipped with an Event Data Recorder (EDR) which is intended to enable Tesla to collect data and record information from its vehicles and also provides information on various processes of the vehicle’s functioning systems when a crash occurs. The information regarding vehicle speed as extracted from the Tesla Model X provides proof of the foregoing facts[2]
[1] https://www.tesladeaths.com/ [2] https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Te...


I think it will matter whether or not the car was operating in FSD or not. People can chalk up AP failures to idiot drivers misusing a feature, and then blame that person. When it's Tesla claiming to be fully in control, that's a different story. Though I guess they're probably not making that claim yet for 'FSD'.




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