Exciting details
• In October 2016 published "Tesla" A video to promote the self-driving feature, with the aim of demonstrating capabilities such as stopping at a red light and accelerating with a green light.
• The video is still archived on the site "Tesla" mail, and promoted it on "Twitter" CEO of the company Elon Musk as evidence that "The car drives itself".
• After a fatal driverless driver accident in 2018, Eluswami was called to testify as part of the investigation.
• The engineer said that "The capabilities shown in the video were not available in the car"indicating that the company is promoting features not found in its cars.
• He added according to the text of his testimony that I saw "Archyde.com": "The video was not intended to accurately depict what was available to customers in 2016, but rather to explain what could have been included in the system.".
• When asked if the video showed the self-driving system available in cars at this time, Eluswami replied: "No. not like that".
And she said "Archyde.com" If none of "Tesla" Or Eluswami or Musk did not respond to requests for comment.
Although the aforementioned video is accompanied by a sentence "The person in the driver’s seat is not doing anything"and that "The car drives itself"the "Tesla" It requires its drivers to keep their hands on the steering wheel while using a feature Self driving.
On its website, the company says: "Tesla" Designed to assist with steering, stopping, changing speed and lane, but their features "Do not make the car autonomous".
And the previous year, the newspaper reported "The New York Times" Tesla engineers produced a 2016 video to promote self-driving, without announcing that the car had already recognized the road, or that it had crashed while completing filming.
and face "Tesla" Lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over the self-driving feature.
The US Department of Justice had launched a criminal investigation into the company’s claims that its electric cars could drive themselves in 2021, after a number of accidents, some of them fatal.
The aforementioned video dates back to 2016. As for the testimony of the self-driving program manager in “TeslaAshok Eluswami took evidence in a lawsuit against the company, as part of the investigation into a fatal accident that occurred in 2018.
Exciting details
• In October 2016, Tesla published a video clip to promote the self-driving feature, with the aim of demonstrating capabilities such as stopping at a red light and accelerating when the green light appears.
• The video is still archived on the Tesla website, and was promoted on Twitter by the company’s CEO Elon Musk As evidence that “the car drives itself”.
• After a fatal driverless driver accident in 2018, Eluswami was called to testify as part of the investigation.
• The engineer said that “the capabilities that appeared in the video were not available in the car,” indicating that the company is promoting features not found in its cars.
• He added, according to a transcript of his testimony, which was seen by Archyde.com: “The intent of the video was not to accurately depict what was available to customers in 2016, but rather to explain what could have been included in the system.”
• When asked if the video showed the self-driving system available in cars at this time, Eluswami replied: “No. It is not.”
Archyde.com said neither Tesla, Eluswami, nor Musk responded to a request for comment.
Although the aforementioned video is accompanied by the phrase “the person sitting on the driver’s seat does nothing” and that “the car drives itself”, Tesla requires its car drivers to keep their hands on the steering wheel while using the feature. Self driving.
The company says on its website that Tesla is designed to assist with steering, stopping, speed and lane changes, but its features “do not make the car autonomous”.
And the previous year, The New York Times reported that Tesla engineers produced a 2016 video to promote self-driving, without declaring that the car had already recognized the road, or that it had crashed while completing filming.
Tesla faces lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over its self-driving feature.
The US Department of Justice had launched a criminal investigation into the company’s claims that its electric cars could drive themselves in 2021, after a number of accidents, some of them fatal.