Tesla "Autopilot" Is No More, After California Pressures Tesla to Change the Name
Car and Driver
February 19, 2026
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Tesla is changing its driver assistance feature names following legal pressure from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The DMV had threatened to revoke Tesla's dealer license due to misleading marketing of "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving," which overstated their capabilities. In response, Tesla renamed "Autopilot" to "Traffic Aware Cruise Control" and added "(Supervised)" to "Full Self
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Originally published on Car and Driver on 2/19/2026