California's DMV files complaint against Tesla for misleading self-driving advertisements

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California's DMV files complaint against Tesla for misleading self-driving advertisements
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles is calling Tesla's self-driving car claims into question, leading the agency to file a complaint against the electric car giant.

's self-driving car claims into question, leading the agency to file a complaint against the electric car giant.

The complaint alleges that Tesla uses the terms 'auto pilot' and ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’ as labels suggesting a car can completely drive and operate on its own. The complaint points to some of the company's marketing ads between 2021 and 2022 using that vocabulary. "Instead of simply identifying product or brand names, these ‘Autopilot’ and ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’ labels and descriptions represent that vehicles equipped with the [Advanced Driver Assistance System] ADAS features will operate as an autonomous vehicle, but vehicles equipped with those ADAS features could not at the time of those advertisements, and cannot now, operate as autonomous vehicles.

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