Tesla investigation rips Germany for wrongdoing, says allegations not misleading

The German government recently expressed great dissatisfaction with Tesla 's Autopilot and sent a letter to Tesla to emphasize that the Autopilot function is only an auxiliary driving function and asked Tesla to replace the misleading name "Autopilot".

Tesla certainly would not just sit there and obey the German government, and the company put forward its own views in response. Most importantly, Tesla did not just speak without any words, but showed the investigation evidence to prove how innocent it is to the German government:

In response to the German automotive regulatory agency Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), which believes that the name "Autopilot" is misleading, Tesla and a third-party agency conducted a survey of German Tesla owners to further understand how Tesla owners view Autopilot.

The survey results show that 98% of Tesla owners said they understand that when using Autopilot, the owner should always be in control of the vehicle.

The above is Tesla's response to the German government's complaint. According to the survey results, when asked whether the name "Autopilot" makes car owners feel that the vehicle is fully autonomous, 93% of the people think it is not.

California is preparing to legislate to regulate the use of autonomous driving terms in advertising, and this legislation may require Tesla to change its name. Consumer Reports has publicly advised Tesla to replace the name "Autopilot" for the same reasons as the German government. Tesla's simple and crude response to KBA is related to the fact that Germany is not the only country that questions the name "Autopilot".

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