Tesla's owner documentation, in-car prompts and purchase flow state that Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" require an attentive driver with hands ready on the wheel at all times. The naming has been genuinely and fairly criticised by regulators as potentially confusing — that critique has merit. But the official instruction to drivers is supervision, not hands-off autonomy, and the car actively monitors driver attention. The gap is between marketing branding and legal instruction, not a claim that the car drives itself unattended. Tesla also renamed the package to "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" in 2024 — an explicit acknowledgement of the criticism and a move toward clearer language. The distinction matters because Tesla's genuinely uncrewed system runs under a separate, geofenced Robotaxi program with no driver at all; the consumer car you buy is still, by Tesla's own instructions, a supervised assist that keeps the human responsible.