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Tesla stops deadly self-driving crash lawsuit from trial as Canada bans Level 3 vehicle autonomy
Tesla is now trying to prevent its Autopilot secrets and issues from spilling out in the open, while British Columbia bans higher levels of autonomous driving.

Drivers in the Canadian province of British Columbia will not only be fined if they use the still rare Level 3 autonomous driving systems, but they can't even drive cars that have them as a feature.

Despite that Level 3 autonomous vehicles still require the driver to be alert and ready to override the system, they can take decisions to pass a slow vehicle on their own, for instance.

This is why the new Motor Vehicle Act in British Columbia has now banned any Level 3-5 autonomous driving systems on the province's roads unless explicitly authorized.

This is the first move ive seen by a government to ban Level 3+ automation. If this catches on then Tesla can just use government regulation for reasons why it was unable to release a truly full self driving system instead of it being a FAKE IT UNTIL IT MAKES IT SCAM! The underlying technology is just too dangerous in our deteriorating geomagnetic environment.

Tesla is smart enough to classify its free Autopilot and paid Full Self-Driving (Supervised) features as Level 2 systems to escape such regulatory scrutiny before the imminent FSD launch in Canada.

It is also smart enough to prevent the inner workings of those systems, and the data it has on them, from spilling out in the open for everyone to pick apart. Instead of allowing a deadly Autopilot crash lawsuit to reach trial stage, Tesla just settled for an undisclosed amount.

however, assigned equal blame to Tesla for overhyping the capabilities of its driver-assist system, and to the California highway authority that had failed to fix the barrier where Huang crashed, leaving it damaged from a previous accident.

In any case, the family countered, in 2018 when the deadly crash happened, there weren't nearly as many or as detailed warnings and classifications about the use of Tesla's driver-assist systems as there are now.

Instead of going to trial on the matter, Tesla preferred to settle with the relatives and avoid opening statements and cross-examinations, which could serve as a precedent in other such trials, or for regulatory bodies that are investigating such incidents.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-stops-deadly-self-driving-crash-lawsuit-from-trial-as-Canada-bans-Level-3-vehicle-autonomy.825842.0.html

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Tesla = fake it until you make it scam

While Tesla says in the fine print that you shouldn’t use its self-driving without oversight, the novelty upon which it’s sold implies that you can. “There’s so many incentives toward bullshit, right?” he says, “toward overclaiming what your technology can do.”

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