> Yet it doesn't disengage when you take your hands off the wheel
Well you don't want it to immediately disengage, which would be insanely dangerous, but it knows if your hands are on the wheel. It will progressively alert you more prominently if it hasn't felt wheel torque from your hands. It will then begin beeping loudly and stop and lock you out from using Autopilot. It also knows whether you are looking at the road from an internal camera and will beep if you are looking at your phone, watch, or the car's screen. This system works quite well.
> lane assist, assists you in keeping in the lane. It doesn't pretend to be able to drive for you. It also, as far as I can see, doesn't attempt to fling you into cars you're overtaking. (unless you don't use your indicators....)
"Pretending to drive for you" is meaningless. It's a feature that takes over driving functions that requires active supervision and that if you do not pay attention can cause a crash. The conditions of how it might cause that crash are not particularly important conceptually. What matters is that there is an expectation you pay attention or you might crash. The primary difference is cruise control is worse at driving.
> Yes, because they have been told in no uncertain terms that if you obliterate someone in your car, its your fault and you're going to jail. More over, you were the one driving, so its down to you to not do it. Tesla are shipping untested systems and telling you, as an untrained roboticist supervisor: "don't worry, its safe, it drives it's self!" give you the impression that you don't really need to pay that much attention.
This is also the case with FSD. You're told its your fault. You're told it's your responsibility. They do not say "don't worry it drives itself" or give you the impression that you don't really need to pay that much attention. In fact it says the following, among other things you must explicitly accept, enable, and agree to:
> Full Self-Driving is in early limited access Beta and must be used with additional caution. It may do the wrong thing at the worst time, so you must always keep your hands on the wheel and pay extra attention to the road. Do not become complacent. When FSD is enabled your Model 3 will make lane changes off highway, select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other vehicles and objects, and make left and right turns. Use FSD in limited Beta only if you will pay constant attention to the road, and be prepared to act immediately, especially around blind corners, crossing intersections, and in narrow driving situations. Cabin Camera is used to detect driver attentiveness while FSD Beta is in-use to provide you with audible alerts, reminding you to keep your eyes on the road.
> I will not endorse a barely credible level 2 system who's QA system involves YOLO deploying shit to unqualified customers.
I'm not looking for your endorsement, I was trying to explain why the system is legal and probably less dangerous than you think. Also obviously they QA it before it goes out to "unqualified" customers.