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> the issue boils down to their use of the term "Autopilot" for a product that is not Autpilot

It is literally an autopilot. Just like an autopilot on an airplane, it keeps you stable and in a certain flight corridor. There's virtually no difference except for Tesla's Autopilot's need to deal with curved trajectories.



> There's virtually no difference except for Tesla's Autopilot's need to deal with curved trajectories.

Well, and it actively avoids collisions with other vehicles (most of the time). Airplane (and boat) autopilots don't do that.

"But you're using the word autopilot wrong!"


Well, they still need to avoid the collisions more reliably, apparently. Once they do it perfectly reliably I will add it into the list of the things it does differently from an airplane autopilot. ;)




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