A Tesla engineer testified that Tesla faked a Model X driving alone in a 2016 video. You know, the one from 2016, where the company vehemently insists Nobody is in control of the car? Yes the.
It should come as no surprise to readers of this popular blogsite.com. We called bullshit on this video way back when it was published also as CEO Elon Musk and his company insisted this was the real McCoy:
However, according to Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s director of autopilot software, it didn’t drive itself at all. It was actually on a pre-programmed route as a self-drive – two very different programs. the New York Times The story of the hoax was first released in 2021, but this is the first time a current staffer has confirmed the incident under oath.
The testimony comes from a sworn statement taken last summer as evidence in a lawsuit over a deadly tesla crash 2018after Reuters:
To create the video, Tesla used 3D mapping along a predetermined route from a home in Menlo Park, California, to Tesla’s Palo Alto headquarters at the time, he said.
Drivers stepped in to take control during test runs, he said. In an attempt to show that the Model X could park itself without a driver, a test car crashed into a fence in Tesla’s parking lot, he said.
“The intent of the video was not to accurately represent what was available to customers in 2016. It was meant to represent what could be built into the system,” Elluswamy said, according to a transcript of his testimony seen by Reuters.
When Tesla released the video, Musk tweeted, “Tesla drives itself (no human intervention whatsoever) through city streets to highways to streets and then finds a parking spot.”
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When asked if the 2016 video showed the performance of the Tesla Autopilot system, which was available in a production car at the time, Elluswamy said, “It doesn’t.”
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Musk and Tesla had a hell of a time both last year and this year. The car manufacturer is the topic several investigations both at the federal and Condition levels. His troubles also extends across seas, like ask whole countries the validity of Tesla’s self-driving claims.
For Tesla, the automaker is advising owners that its product isn’t truly self-driving, instead calling its software “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving,” which kind of defeats the purpose of this disclaimer. We’ve seen Tesla owners and owners of others Cars with advanced safety driver assistance systems place far too much trust in their vehicles. Recently a Tesla owner admitted to renting out his FSD beta vehicle drive him home while he was drunk at the wheel.
