Faiz Siddiqui, Technology Reporter, The Washington Post:
So what regulators have found here is that Tesla autopilot is essentially able to activate in locations where it is not designed to be used.
This was the subject of a Washington Post report over the weekend. We found there were eight deadly crashes or serious crashes in which autopilot was activated on a road that was not the type of highway, on-ramp to off-ramp, think of an interstate, in which it was designed to be used.
So there are these locations of what the regulators call foreseeable misuse, where someone could abuse the software by activating it, say, on a long and winding road with a lot of intersections, any kind of residential city surface street, where this is really intended — think about cruise control — or an interstate highway or at least a highway with clear demarcated lane lines, exits, a center divider or what have you.
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