Autonomous Vehicle News
If the driver leaves the steering wheel unattended for too long, the “nag” escalates to a beeping noise. Tesla CEO Elon Musk who also owns and runs the social network X, formerly Twitter, often implies Tesla vehicles are self-driving. Over the weekend, Musk livestreamed a test drive in a Tesla equipped with a still-in-development version of the company’s FSD software (v. 12) on the social platform. During that demo, Musk streamed using a mobile device he held while driving and chatting with his passenger, Tesla’s head of Autopilot software engineering Ashok Elluswamy. His use of Tesla’s systems would likely comprise a violation of the company’s own terms of use for Autopilot, FSD and FSD Beta, according to Greg Lindsay, an Urban Tech fellow at Cornell.