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Reuters reports:
A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.
The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was released in October 2016 and promoted on Twitter by Chief Executive Elon Musk as evidence that “Tesla drives itself.”
But the Model X was not driving itself with technology Tesla had deployed, Ashok Elluswamy, director of Autopilot software at Tesla, said in the transcript of a July deposition taken as evidence in a lawsuit against Tesla for a 2018 fatal crash.
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I remember watching Tesla video promoting self-driving in 2016 and being happily convinced it was real. Now a deposition in court case reveals it was staged, on Musk’s urging. So @Tesla lied and offered no comment to @guardian about the story. ?
— Dan Cass @[email protected] (@DanJCass) January 18, 2023
The Director of Autopilot at Tesla testified that the self driving video Musk posted in 2016 (and is still available at https://t.co/iMYJpIaQaT) was staged. Shocked the FTC hasn’t cracked down on this fraudulent marketing. https://t.co/CzqfcaSHy7 https://t.co/rrDWSXMREF
— Greg (@waltisfrozen) January 18, 2023