That's a little petty.
Tesla has come under a lot of scrutiny lately, including from its home state California DMV. In August,that accused the Elon Musk-led automaker of misleading customers by naming its advanced driver assistance systems "Full Self-Driving" and "Autopilot" — names that heavily imply that they're fully autonomous, even though both require constant attention on the road.
So last week, the state's DMV investigators wanted to get a look at the FSD beta for themselves and held a demo at their Sacramento headquarters., Tesla initially didn't want to play ball. Why? Because the automaker harbored a grudge against several attending DMV advisers who had publicly been critical of Tesla in the past.
"I question whether it is appropriate to include your consultants that have made negative public statements about Tesla," wrote Jennifer Cohen, Tesla's California lead for policy and business development, to Miguel Acosta, the DMV's autonomous vehicle chief, in an email and quoted by. "We have yet to receive any assurance that their bias does not influence DMV's treatment of Tesla.
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