Analysis: Tesla’s autopilot is just a driver-assistance system and will continue to be for some time.

In an article analyzing Tesla’s self-driving strategy, Ars Technica (3/7, Lee, 957K) Senior Tech Policy Reporter Timothy Lee writes that an “overhaul to Tesla’s Autopilot webpage might represent the clearest acknowledgment yet that the company has failed to deliver on Elon Musk’s ambitious vision for a self-driving future.” Lee states that the webpage’s “headline has changed from ‘Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars’ to ‘Future of Driving’,” a “sentence about Tesla’s ride-sharing network has been deleted,” and the “‘Full Self-Driving’ section now includes a disclaimer that ‘future use of these features without supervision is dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience.’” Lee writes that, “in other words, despite Musk’s bluster over the years, Autopilot is still just a driver-assistance system” and “it will continue to be just a driver-assistance system for some time to come.”