"It has long been Mobileye's position that Tesla's Autopilot should not be allowed to operate hands-free without proper and substantial technological restrictions and limitations," said the company's most recent statement, adding: "In communications dating back to May 2015 between Mobileye Chairman and Tesla's CEO, Mobileye expressed safety concerns regarding the use of Autopilot hands-free."
That seems a bit damning for Tesla, but it's hard to take very seriously without examples of the "communications".
Might Mobileye be reacting to advice from their lawyers?
I do my best to mentally invert the Tesla/Musk hype, and my own affinity for what they do, but:
1) It doesn't seem like Tesla was dishonest about anything.
2) MobilEye seems to be very whiny/wimpy about getting a tiny, indirect fraction of the flak that Tesla has gotten for the crash.
Seems like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... applies.
ugh, more ME noise. so ME has a lot of evidence that they are lying through their teeth, if they were so worried why let all the other brands do the hands free thing? http://www.caranddriver.com/features/semi-autonomous-cars-co...
* ME boasting about their tech making hands free possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMXXXmxG-I&feature=youtu.be...
At the risk of fulfilling the "HN loves tesla" stereotype, I find it really difficult to take seriously an article that begins with a photo that was very clearly chosen to be unflattering, captioned "Overlord".
That kind of flagrant skew poisons the credibility of everything else around it.