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People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving

heyrick Silver badge

Re: Perhaps...

To my mind, the problem isn't specifically the drivers so much as the terminology. Put an outright ban on all such terms as autopilot, self driving, etc and require them to be described as driving assistance aids and promoted and marketed as such.

If people get given all sorts of marketing promise and buzzwords, they may feel that these "aids" can rescue them from a sticky situation, or take over if they have this one important text to send...

And, furthermore, ban all actual self driving vehicles from public roads until such time as they can be demonstrated to be as good as a reasonably competent driver on test tracks (different ones, not the same one for obvious reasons). The rest of us are not your alpha test crash dummies.

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