California DMV accuses Tesla of making false claims about Autopilot

California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has blamed Tesla for erroneously promoting its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) highlights,

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as revealed prior by the Los Angeles Times (by means of CNBC). The organization recorded two separate objections with the state's Office of Administrative

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Hearings on July 28th, asserting Tesla made "false or deceiving" claims about its vehicles' independent driving abilities.

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In the filings, the DMV claims the names of Tesla's Autopilot and FSD highlights,

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as well as the language the organization uses to depict them, wrongly suggest that vehicles outfitted with the innovation can work independently.

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The DMV explicitly focuses to the data on Tesla's Autopilot page, which expresses its FSD framework,

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"is intended to have the option to lead short and really long outings with no activity expected by the individual steering the ship",

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and is prepared to do "exploring metropolitan roads, complex crossing points and turnpikes."

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