Love all the responses about RTM, system is only beta, don't pay attention to the YT influencers, Tesla doesn't advertise the system as anything but driver assist. But they still have this 2016 video on their website without any real cautions or explanations that this isn't the product you are getting when you buy the 2019 FSD version of auto-pilot:
Tesla Self-Driving Demonstration
The video literally breaks every guideline in the manual on using auto-pilot. What are buyers supposed to expect? Especially when they get almost zero ability to interact with knowledgeable sales people prior to purchase and very little systems explanation upon delivery. I get more time at an Apple store when I shop for and purchase a $700 phone than at a Tesla store when I shop for a $50,000 vehicle.
I agree that an average consumer can be mislead by the demonstration but still, it is a demonstration, not a real test done by a third party like Consumer Reports after all.
I assume that consumers just click to order and don't bother to read what they just clicked.
If they do on the Autopilot page they would understand that the features are contingent on a few factors and if those are not met, they should understand that they got nothing!
"The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."
Consumers should understand that paying on this order page doesn't get the promised autonomous and the reason is because it's present time, not future time just yet.
"The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience,..."
Consumers should understand that paying on this order page doesn't mean you get the features unless they pass reliability. If the reliability is not achieved, then they don't get the feature.
"as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions."
Good luck on fulfilling this bureaucratic nightmare. Consumers should understand that they can pay good money for the feature but if the law is lagging behind, there's no obligation for Tesla to fulfill the feature! Consumers will then need to vote for a Tesla-friendly politician to hurry up the laws.
"As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates."
Notice the word "evolve". It's not a final product. There's no promise when the process of evolution will be finished.
Just because consumers can be mislead, it doesn't help if consumers don't read the footnote!