{"id":72723,"date":"2023-01-18T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72723"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:58:00","slug":"tesla-allegedly-misled-in-2016-autopilot-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tesla-allegedly-misled-in-2016-autopilot-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla allegedly misled in 2016 autopilot advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video published in 2016 showing the Tesla Model X, illustrating the capabilities of autonomous driving technology, turned out to be staged. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/188105076?h=8f7be12d75\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the transcript of testimony by Ashok Elluswamy, the former director of Autopilot software, the vehicle in the clip was driven by a driver. At that time, the robot car did not support stopping at red lights or moving on green, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, Elluswamy testified in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/5\/1\/18525330\/tesla-autopilot-lawsuit-model-x-crash-walter-huang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">\u043f\u043e \u0434\u0435\u043b\u0443<\/a> about a fatal crash that occurred in March 2018. As a result, an Apple engineer died.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which in 2016 Elon Musk used to demonstrate the robot car&#8217;s autonomy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/videos\/full-self-driving-hardware-all-tesla-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">\u043d\u0430\u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f<\/a> in the archive on the company&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tesla drives itself (no human input at all) thru urban streets to highway to streets, then finds a parking spot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V2T7KGMPBo\">https:\/\/t.co\/V2T7KGMPBo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/789019145853513729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abTesla \u0435\u0434\u0435\u0442 \u0441\u0430\u043c\u0430 (\u0431\u0435\u0437 \u0443\u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430) \u043f\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0430\u043c \u043a \u0448\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0435 \u0438 \u0443\u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430\u043c, \u0430 \u0437\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043c \u043d\u0430\u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442 \u043c\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0430\u0440\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0438\u00bb, \u2014 \u043d\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043b \u043c\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0435\u0440.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Elluswamy, to create the video the developers used 3D-mapping of a predetermined route from a home in Menlo Park, California, to the company&#8217;s then-headquarters in Palo Alto.<\/p>\n<p>During filming, drivers had to intervene and take control of the self-driving car. Also during a demonstration of \u201cautonomous\u201d parking, the test vehicle crashed into a fence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThe aim of the video was not to show technologies available to customers in 2016. It demonstrated what could be built into the system\u00bb, \u2014 said Elluswamy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked whether the video showed Autopilot capabilities that were available in production cars in 2016, the former senior engineer said, \u201cthat\u2019s not the case\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to attorney Andrew McDevitt, representing the wife of the Apple employee who died in the crash, the video \u201cclearly misled\u201d Tesla owners about Autopilot\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, California authorities banned Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/california-bans-tesla-from-calling-autopilot-full-self-driving\">to call the autopilot Full Self-Driving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October, media reported a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/u-s-doj-investigates-teslas-autopilot-advertising-claims\">the manufacturer\u2019s advertising promises<\/a> about Autopilot.<\/p>\n<p>In August, American consumer advocate Ralph Nader <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-consumer-advocate-calls-to-ban-teslas-full-self-driving\">called to ban the Full Self-Driving system<\/a> owing to its \u201cdangerous and irresponsible actions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video published in 2016 showing the Tesla Model X, illustrating the capabilities of autonomous driving technology, turned out to be staged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1162,1319,1522],"class_list":["post-72723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-court-cases","tag-tesla","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72725,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723\/revisions\/72725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}