It's got extremely limited assist features that still required a human to be legally licensed and competent to drive, hands on wheels, not drunk or on disqualifying drugs, etc. That is not at all self-driving. You can keep on repeating yourself, and attempting to wordsmith this as if it is self-driving - it's not a convincing argument.
> It's got extremely limited assist features that still required a human to be legally licensed and competent to drive, hands on wheels, not drunk or on disqualifying drugs, etc.
Irrelevant. Most people would still say that this falls under the category of self driving for most situations.
For the vast majority of people in the world, it solves most of their MVP usecases.
It does not work for everything and that's fine. What matters is that it works for most situations.
Since it works for most situations, most people would be happy to call that self driving.
Or in other words, it is a self driving car that is only allowed to be used when you have a license and are not drunk.
Yes, that is a limitation, but it is a small limitation and still mostly fulfills most people's definition of self driving.
>Most people would still say that this falls under the category of self driving for most situations.
Saying things doesn't make it true. You can provide a citation for a study that tells us what most people want and need when it comes to either autonomous driving or self-driving. I don't know a single person who considers these very narrow feature sets with many caveats to even approximate either what they want or need.
>For the vast majority of people in the world, it solves most of their MVP usecases.
This cannot be a true statement. A top requirement would be "keeping me safer than driving myself" and in numerous instances we find that's simply not true even when people are paying attention.
>Since it works for most situations, most people would be happy to call that self driving.
Most people routinely drive on surface streets with traffic lights, pedestrians and cyclists. It absolutely does not navigate that environment by itself.
> top requirement would be "keeping me safer than driving myself"
No, the usecase is "able to take my hands of the wheel and not pay attention". Regardless of what the Tesla term of service says about hands on the wheel or whatever, I am sure that many of their owners do this already.
Even IF this is more dangerous, there are still lots of people who would be happy to make this tradeoff.
We trade off our safety for convenience all the time. This technology does that and it does so right now.
Most people in the world are happy to call that self driving, even if it doesn't work in the snow, or park itself.
It does not solve everything, but it solves enough of the problem space that most people consider that to fulfill the MVP of "self driving car".