The California Department of Motor Vehicles has been scrutinizing the company recently. In August, the Department of Motor Vehicles filed a complaint against Musk's company, accusing it of misleading customers by naming its advanced driver assistance systems "Full Self-Driving" and "Autopilot", even though both require constant attention.
Last week, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles investigators wanted to get a look at the new software and held a demo for them.
According to emails obtained by Bloomberg, the company initially did not want to play ball. What's the reason? The automaker had a vendetta against some of the advisers who had criticized them in the past.
In an email to the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, the lead for policy and business development at the company asked if it was appropriate to include consultants who had made negative statements about the company. They haven't received assurances that their bias doesn't affect the treatment ofTesla.
The man didn't seem to care, but he was very nice about it.
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Bryant Walker Smith from the Center for Internet and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, was one of the advisers that the company had in mind. It was controversial.
Steven Shladover, a UC Berkeley transportation research engineer, wrote previously that the use of the term self-driving was very damaging.
Making a big stink over guys who need to be critical of an industry they regulate? It isn't a good look, especially since how mild their criticisms were.
It comes across as a little desperate from the automaker.
There's a lot of pressure on the company. The feds are looking into crashes that involved autopilot and fsd.
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