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Autopilot

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Autopilot has appeared in 57 articles since 2016-07. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Tesla, California, Elon Musk, NHTSA.

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Coverage Timeline

2023-12-18
Washington Post 3 related

Experts and lawmakers say Tesla's largest recall yet is unlikely to solve Autopilot's fundamental flaw: Tesla failing to limit where drivers can use the feature

Tesla's software update adds warnings to improve driver attention while using Autopilot — but doesn't limit where drivers can engage the technology

2023-11-13
New York Times 4 related

How Łukasz Krupski, a Tesla whistleblower in Norway, leaked personnel records and Autopilot data that caught the attention of regulators in several countries

2023-11-12
New York Times 3 related

How Lukasz Krupski, a Tesla whistleblower in Norway, leaked personnel records and Autopilot data that caught the attention of regulators in several countries

An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @pallenberg@mastodon.social ...

2023-06-11
Washington Post 5 related

NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents

Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported

2023-02-16
New York Times 2 related

An interview with CS professor and ex-NHTSA adviser Missy Cummings, who says people are “over-trusting” Tesla's Autopilot, GM's Super Cruise, and other systems

Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that drivers were putting …

2022-08-08
IEEE Spectrum 3 related

A look at the data Tesla collects from its 3M vehicles: breadcrumb GPS trails and gateway log files, using the data to develop Autopilot, and who owns the data

Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum :

2022-06-09
New York Times

Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech

Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult. Tweets: @2plus2make5 , @parismarx , @davidzipper , @garymarcus , @noahgoodall , and @iih...

2021-12-08
New York Times 6 related

After Tesla added over 12 video games that can be played while driving, critics argue the company is compromising road users' safety, on top of Autopilot issues

The feature raises fresh questions about whether Tesla is compromising safety as it rushes to add new technologies.

2021-05-10
The Verge 9 related

Memo: California DMV says Tesla is at Level 2 currently after Tesla's head of Autopilot admits that Elon Musk has been exaggerating about “full self-driving”

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality'  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been overstating the capabilities …

2019-11-06
Bloomberg 3 related

Survey of Tesla Model 3 owners: 90%+ say Autopilot makes them safer, 13% say Autopilot has put them in a dangerous situation and 28% say it saved them from one

We asked 5,000 Model 3 owners about Tesla's software for automated driving on highways and parking lots.  More than 90% said the feature makes them safer.

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Autopilot has appeared in 137 Techmeme articles since March 2015. The biggest stories include US NHTSA opens investigation into fatal accident involving Tesla's Autopilot mode; Tesla... and US NHTSA opens investigation into fatal accident involving Tesla's Autopilot mode; Tesla.... Frequently covered alongside Tesla, NHTSA, Elon Musk, FSD, and Tesla Autopilot. Coverage has shifted toward regulation themes and away from consumer, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety -33pts; consumer +60pts; research -33pts
2025Q2consumer -60pts; funding -20pts; competition +80pts
2025Q3enterprise +12pts; consumer +12pts; research +12pts

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