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electrek – Tesla drops ‘FSD’ from name of its driver-assist tech in China

electrek reports on how Tesla has had to remove "Full Self Driving" and "Autopilot" terms from the products it sells in China, given that they are patently not true. Also noteworthy that Chinese human drivers are receiving tickets for bad driving when the use the Tesla driver assist features.

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TechCrunch – What Tesla can and can’t do in California with its new passenger transportation permit

A great deal of ink has been spilled (pixels have been pushed??) on how Tesla received first of the permits needed to run a robotaxi service. Fanboys got excited! But this permit has absolutely nothing to do with robotaxis. It simply is a permit to run an app-based Uber like system with human drivers. This is of course not something that Tesla actually plans on doing. Therefore it is a complete nothing of an announcement. Thankfully TechCrunch clarifies the situation.

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electrek – Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test

electrek reports on a truly wild YouTube video by Mark Roper showing that without LiDAR that the Tesla's completely miss detecting objects in the middle of the road. And please, a moment of silence for the multiple mannequins that were completely demolished by the Tesla.

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