Consumer Reports says Tesla’s new autopilot setting raises ‘serious safety concerns’

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CNBC - 5/22/2019 - Ashley Turner - Tesla’s latest update to its autopilot function raises “serious safety concerns,” according to Consumer Reports magazine. The magazine said its test of Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot feature, which was first introduced last year for highway driving and updated with new options in April, performed worse than human drivers and even created new risks for them. Consumer Reports reviewed one of the autopilot’s optional features that allows the car to automatically change lanes on highways. The function, which needs to be enabled by the driver, automatically switches lanes without driver confirmation until it’s disabled or Navigate on Autopilot is turned off. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/consume ... cerns.html