42% Of Drivers Think Their Tesla Is Completely Self-Driving
One survey found that 42% of drivers think their Tesla is fully self-driving. It is possible that system design and marketing are fueling these misconceptions. A large percentage of people using Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance system seem to think the technology makes their cars completely self-driving – even though the software is far from actually being able to do so. that. According to a new survey from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), 42% of Tesla drivers say they feel "comfortable in treating their vehicle as fully self-driving". It's so magical it's hard to believe – Autopilot can keep your car in the right lane with simple braking and acceleration, but it's nowhere near a complete self-driving system . In fact, even Tesla's slightly more advanced Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, which was not polled in the IIHS study, is still in beta testing. “The big message here is that early adopters of these systems still have an incomple...