>Your comment makes it sound like the two mistakes are equivalent.
It's a TL;DR. Of course it sacrifices nuance for brevity.
>They might have been overconfident, but if the misleading marketing leads to deaths, I don't think the finger should be pointed to "overconfidence".
I generally agree with you but there is a good argument to be had that the driver is responsible. These were personally owned vehicles, not rentals. It's not like the owners who died didn't have time to become familiar enough with the system to reach the same performance conclusions (i.e. "it's basically just really good lane keeping and adaptive cruise") as Euro NCAP did. I get that products for the general consumer are supposed to be stupid proof but everyone knows that marketing bends the truth by only ever showing the ideal case. Nobody expects fancy AWD and electronic nannies to let them navigate snow covered hairpin roads with 100% accuracy every time like in the car commercials. Nobody expects to rely on automatic braking or cross traffic detection to not get in accidents when backing out of a driveway. The same goes for Tesla's autopilot. It is unreasonable to expect Autopilot to perform the way the marketing implies in 100% of circumstances.
>It's not like the owners who died didn't have time to become familiar enough with the system to reach the same performance conclusions
This means if a Tesla kills me in the first 2 weeks I am not responsible since as per your argument I did not had enough time to realize the marketing deception and the actual capabilities of the car, it is not like I was trained like real pilots to drive this specific car model.
Tesla ADS is the best on the market but it is marketed as an autopilot, which is wrong and caused some overconfident owners to die.