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The judgment of the Regional Court of Munich I was clear: Tesla's driver assistance system, called Autopilot by the company, is not an autopilot at all.
So it must not be advertised with this term, the judges decided on July 14th.
In doing so, they fully upheld a complaint by the headquarters to combat unfair competition (file number 33 O 14041/19).
The US electric car manufacturer is therefore prohibited from suggesting that its vehicles are technically capable of driving completely autonomously.
Decision in the appeal procedure in one year
According to the judgment, Tesla is also no longer allowed to give the wrong impression that autonomous vehicles are permitted under road traffic law in the Federal Republic.
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But Tesla continues to advertise the "autopilot".
The judgment is not yet final.
And according to information from WELT AM SONNTAG, this state of affairs will continue for around a year.
The appeal process before the Munich Higher Regional Court takes an extremely long time.
After an original date had to be postponed, the 29th civil senate set October 7, 2021 for the hearing on the matter, confirmed a spokesman for the court of this newspaper.
However, it is possible that this date will have to be rescheduled again.
Tesla advertises accordingly on its website.
“The pioneering autopilot safety and comfort functions take the strain off you while driving,” it says there.
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It is true that further down in the text there is a restriction that "autonomous operation of the vehicle (...) is not possible".
From the judges' point of view, however, this information was not sufficient to remove “the misleading due to a lack of clarity and transparency in terms of content”.
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Source: Welt am Sonntag