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01-24-2020, 12:27 PM
Filed under: Government/Legal (https://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/),Green (https://www.autoblog.com/category/green-auto-news/),Tesla (https://www.autoblog.com/tesla),Electric (https://www.autoblog.com/category/electric/)
https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/640x360+0+62/resize/800x450!/format/jpg/quality/85/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2018-11/da95fb90-e8e4-11e8-bfff-a59227be6c0e A U.S. senator on Friday urged Tesla Inc to rebrand its driver assistance system Autopilot, saying it has "an inherently misleading name" and is subject to potentially dangerous misuse. The electric automaker introduced new warnings for red lights and stop signs last year "to minimize the potential risk of red light- or stop sign-running as a result of temporary driver inattention," Tesla said in the letter. Senator Edward Markey said he believed the potential dangers of Autopilot canContinue reading U.S. senator slams Tesla's 'misleading' name for Autopilot driver assistance system (https://www.autoblog.com/2020/01/24/tesla-autopilot-senator-edward-markey-rename/)
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