{"id":346676,"date":"2026-02-19T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:12:21","slug":"autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopilot debate: Tesla avoids sales ban in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Tesla autopilot full self driving fsd\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>California will not impose a 30-day sales ban on Tesla vehicles after all. The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) had deemed the use of the term &#8216;Autopilot&#8217; misleading to consumers\u2014now, Tesla has stopped using the designation. However, the reason for this change is likely not just the DMV&#8217;s lawsuit. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/02\/19\/autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>width=&#8221;1400&#8243; height=&#8221;933&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Tesla autopilot full self driving fsd&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;California will not impose a 30-day sales ban on Tesla vehicles after all. The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) had deemed the use of the term &#8216;Autopilot&#8217; misleading to consumers\u2014now, Tesla has stopped using the designation&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/autopilot-debate-tesla-avoids-sales-ban-in-california\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":346677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}