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Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat?

by alan_cx on 9/19/16, 10:43 PM with 29 comments

• by RickS on 9/19/16, 10:57 PM

  At the risk of fulfilling the "HN loves tesla" stereotype, I find it really difficult to take seriously an article that begins with a photo that was very clearly chosen to be unflattering, captioned "Overlord".

  That kind of flagrant skew poisons the credibility of everything else around it.

• by jobu on 9/19/16, 11:32 PM

  "It has long been Mobileye's position that Tesla's Autopilot should not be allowed to operate hands-free without proper and substantial technological restrictions and limitations," said the company's most recent statement, adding: "In communications dating back to May 2015 between Mobileye Chairman and Tesla's CEO, Mobileye expressed safety concerns regarding the use of Autopilot hands-free."

  That seems a bit damning for Tesla, but it's hard to take very seriously without examples of the "communications".

• by Tempest1981 on 9/20/16, 3:38 AM

  Might Mobileye be reacting to advice from their lawyers?

• by tbabb on 9/20/16, 1:55 AM

  I do my best to mentally invert the Tesla/Musk hype, and my own affinity for what they do, but:

  1) It doesn't seem like Tesla was dishonest about anything.

  2) MobilEye seems to be very whiny/wimpy about getting a tiny, indirect fraction of the flak that Tesla has gotten for the crash.

  Seems like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... applies.

• by zeroecco on 9/19/16, 11:49 PM

  ugh, more ME noise. so ME has a lot of evidence that they are lying through their teeth, if they were so worried why let all the other brands do the hands free thing? http://www.caranddriver.com/features/semi-autonomous-cars-co...

  * ME boasting about their tech making hands free possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMXXXmxG-I&feature=youtu.be...