Tesla touts self-driving to consumers, but tells different tale to DMV
For years, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been telling the public that fully autonomous Teslas are just around the corner, no more than a year or two off. The company has been telling regulators a very different story. In official correspondence with California's Department of Motor Vehicles, Tesla lawyers recently admitted the $10,000 option that Tesla sells as Full Self-Driving ...
by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2021
3 minutes
For years, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been telling the public that fully autonomous Teslas are just around the corner, no more than a year or two off.
The company has been telling regulators a very different story.
In official correspondence with California's Department of Motor Vehicles, Tesla lawyers recently admitted the $10,000 option that Tesla sells as Full Self-Driving Capability is not, in fact, capable of full self-driving. "Currently neither Autopilot nor FSD Capability is an autonomous system," Tesla attorney Eric Williams said in a Dec. 28 letter to the DMV, although that could
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