If your car is outfitted with all of those same features, why is Tesla different? This exact news and discussion has popped up enough times among "ordinary folk" that nobody is really fooled (and I don't agree that was Tesla's motive) about the capabilities. If they are, I'm chalking it up to negligence. Tesla drivers are given ample warning from Tesla themselves, their cars, the news, and our social circles.
It is just a difference of magnitude. If my car is wrong, I will get into a minor accident. If the Tesla is wrong it will drive you into a rail at 100km/h.
It seems impossible to go from manual driving to fully autonomous without killing a lot of humans. The companies making these technologies know it. Everybody who buys one of these cars should be aware of it. I would never buy one. I don't even want the end product. I want control over my life. In a manual car, there is a bit of control because you can drive safely and so on. You are still susceptible to other drivers though. In an autonomous car, it can kill me on an empty road.
It might be helpful to identify a third kind of car, which is a manual car with automated collision avoidance. Oftentimes such features are lumped in with autonomous driving, which leads to claims about autonomous driving safety. But they can be broken out and are where the bulk of the safety benefits reside.
If rate of accident per mile is lower, then lot of people lives will be saved. It's same as with trains and planes: lot of people can be killed in accident by autopilot, but trains and planes are much safer than cars on _average_.
"If your car is outfitted with all of those same features, why is Tesla different?"
Maybe a) Tesla's tech isn't as good and b) Tesla's customers are more likely to be tech nerds / Tesla fans and so more likely to overestimate the capabilities of the car.
