Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat? (opens in new tab)

That's the Register for you. Having followed their work for well over a decade now, I might suggest there's a certain element of haste in discounting their coverage on the basis of their deliberately irreverent style. It's not that they're not nice to Elon Musk; they're not nice to anyone.

Maybe you've never read The Register before. Its articles have a certain dry humor. Taking offense to a goofily hyperbolic photo does fulfill a "HN loves Tesla" stereotype.

Also, what about more balanced and critical coverage of Mobile Eye and their previously fawning statements of how they loved working with such an aggressive customer like Tesla ...it somewhat undermines their position.

They like to be snarky, and then whine about being excluded from press events by firms they've been snarky about. See their reporters rant about Apple PR after spending years slagging on Apple PR folks all the way back to 2007. After They hammer on Elon Musk, post odd photos and captions, they will be incredulous that they don't get a press credential to the next Tesla event.

But writing the article and selecting the photo were probably done by different people.

I'm no Luddite but I basically yelled at my business partner the other day when he took his hands off the wheel, eyes off the road, and was punching out an email as if we were on the train.

I've done plenty of computer vision projects and pitched in on some autonomous driving/flying hobby projects- so I'm definitely willing to accept our robot driving overlords, but maybe I know just enough about it to know we're not all the way there yet.

I feel like Tesla is in a bit of a Catch-22 in that to get the system better you want as many people driving with it and feeding you data. At the same time people are people and they will get lulled into a complacent state and begin not paying attention pretty quickly.

That being said, if there was some data that said right now, today, Tesla autopilot is better than the average (or maybe up to the 75th percentile) driver, I'd be okay with people just letting it take the wheel and not screwing things up.

EDIT: Just to be clear, we were in a Tesla w/ autopilot. We weren't just coasting down the highway at rush hour in a regular car.

/r/TeslaMotors dug up this video[1] of MobilEye CEO talking about the Autopilot, so if they really disagreed with the usage of Autopilot, shouldn't they have brought that up prior, and not included it in promotional material. From all indications on their end, I believe that they said that the Tesla Autopilot shouldn't be driven hands-free. I have no qualms with that, but why then use the Autopilot as a promotional feature for their products? Not trying to fanboy with Tesla here, as I do think that MobilEye was right in pulling their products away from Tesla.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMXXXmxG-I

What about the NY reporter who reviewed a Tesla, and when top gear reviews one? Was Tesla's response to each of those - were those dishonest?