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#272: Kelly Funkhouser on Consumer Reports Active Driving Assistance Ranking

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I Think the Linguistic Trick That Tesla's Played About Autopilot Safety

Tesla didn't start calling adapter cruise control and and and link keep assist a safety feature until after the Josh Brown death. Prior to that, there had been autopilot safety features, which every car had; they were like E B and FCW on made emergency braking for a collision warning. And what we now all call autopilot was originally sold as a convenience feature. Tesla started to change our language around that after the first reported death.

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