WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Tesla's (TSLA.O) advanced driver assistance system Autopilot fell in a ranking of 12 major systems, Consumer Reports said Wednesday.

Of 12 systems tested by Consumer Reports, a nonprofit organization that evaluates products and services, Ford Motor's (F.N) BlueCruise was first, followed by General Motors' (GM.N) Cadillac Super Cruise and Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE) Driver Assistance.

Tesla, which was second in Consumer Reports ratings in 2020 behind Super Cruise, fell to seventh, the group said. The electric vehicle maker did not respond to a request for comment.

Tesla hasn’t changed Autopilot’s basic functionality, instead adding more features to it, the group said.

"After all this time, Autopilot still doesn’t allow collaborative steering and doesn’t have an effective driver monitoring system," said Consumer Reports Auto Testing director Jake Fisher in a statement.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating 830,000 Tesla vehicles with Autopilot after a series of crashes with parked emergency vehicles.

NHTSA is reviewing whether Tesla vehicles adequately ensure drivers are paying attention. In June, the agency said evidence suggested drivers in most crashes with emergency vehicles under review had complied with Tesla's alert strategy that seeks to compel driver attention, raising questions about its effectiveness.

NHTSA Acting Administrator Ann Carlson said earlier this month the agency was "working really fast" on its Autopilot probe. "We're moving as quickly as we can, but we also want to be careful and make sure we have all the information we need," she said.

In 2020, the National Transportation Safety Board criticized Tesla's "ineffective monitoring of driver engagement" after a 2018 fatal Autopilot crash.

Autopilot enables cars to steer, accelerate and brake within their lanes without driver intervention but Tesla says the feature requires "active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."

NHTSA has separately opened more than three dozen Tesla special crash investigations where advanced systems including Autopilot were suspected of being used with 19 crash deaths reported.

Elon sat comfortably on their lead too long and got complacent. Now Tesla's no longer the innovative thing it used to be, and larger, more capable and higher-quality manufacturers (with actual production line quality control) are surpassing them, and Elon's busy playing spaceships, digging tunnels, and burying Twitter.

This was ALWAYS the plan for automakers,they knew they could make better cars in under 5 years if the demand is there, they just didn't want have to do the marketing. Why are people shocked.

No manufacturers could get away with redoing a platform from front loaded mass above the front wheel center caps to a much heavier, along the floorboard center mass.

EVs also need small truck-like suspension that needs to be lightweight. It's was too far a jump in experiment for a niche market for any brand to risk.

Tesla managed to rebrand EVs by packaging them as Smartphone on wheels, fully integrating software and hardware and the crazy straight line race numbers.

The demand is still there so of course manufacturers are now hands on with it.

The only thing Tesla has going is they are still considered Luxury where people will overpay to have one but for how long?

Which manufacturers are those ? The Toyotas which wheels fall off ? The Chevys that catch fire or the BMWs that will if they don’t get their software updated ?

The manufacturers who can actually sell new cars with aligned body panels, no parts missing or loose, and no leaks in either the passenger or storage compartments. Also, the same manufacturers that actually address and correct problems like those you mentioned, instead of trying to sweep shit under the rug and hide actual data on their vehicles and mystical self-driving software.

So literally no manufacturer in existence today.

>Elon sat comfortably on their lead too long and got complacent.

Last year they started doubling down on AI training, so that by the end of the year they started installing a custom-designed AI training supercomputer that does 1.1 exaflops in only ten cabinets. For reference, the current fastest supercomputer in the world is 1.6 exaflops with with 74 cabinets. Technically their supercomputer does this at only 16 bit floating point compared to higher precision for the other computer, but it doesn't need more than 16 to train AI.

They also have an advantage in batteries in that they make their own, and they're ramping up mass production of a new battery design that has much higher density. They're not just buying exploding batteries from LG like GM is.

Also, nobody else has a Class 8 truck with decent range.

BTW, the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket in history just passed its full-stack fueling test. Yeah, just playing spaceships.

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Right, this guy hasn’t been active in months and post earrings spreads FUD, - His puts are fucked