Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
The story here is that in a deposition Elluswamy (Autopilot software director) confirmed:<p>* They collected extra data along this particular route.<p>* They made multiple test runs and picked the best.<p>Contrary to the spirit of the demo video and their advertising, but within "not technically lying".<p>This is pretty normal in marketing demos.  For example, in the original iPhone presentation: <i>The engineers identified a “golden path,” a specific set of demo actions that Jobs could perform in a specific order that afforded them the best chance of the phone making it through the presentation without a glitch. For example, Jobs could send an email and then surf the web, but if he reversed the order, the phone tended to crash.</i> 
<a href="https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2017/01/the-history-of-the-iphone/" rel="nofollow">https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2017/01/the-history-o...</a><p>If it weren't for the "and then when they released the product people thought it could do the things but it couldn't, and died" we might be looking back on this as a "clever marketing hack".