Tesla faked 2016 self-driving video, engineer says.
, published in October 2016 and promoted by CEO Elon Musk, shows a Tesla Model X driving from a house in Menlo Park, California, to the company's headquarters in Palo Alto without any human intervention.
The Model X in question wasn't driving itself with technology Tesla implemented in its production cars, however, according to Ashok Elluswamy, director of Autopilot software at Tesla.obtained a transcript of a July deposition taken as evidence in a lawsuit against Tesla for a 2018 fatal crash, where Elluswamy describes the video as a"demonstration of the system's capabilities" rather than something actually available to customers.
“The intent of the video was not to accurately portray what was available for customers in 2016," Elluswamy said, according toAccording to Elluswamy's deposition, drivers had to take control in test runs. At one point, when driving to show the Model X could park itself in a parking lot with no driver, the car crashed into a fence, he said.
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