Tesla successfully appealed in Germany and can continue to use autopilot for publicity and marketing.

CTOnews.com August 16 news, many people think Tesla should not use the names Autopilot and FSD for its driving assistance system, because this will make people think that these systems are already real autonomous driving systems, Tesla this practice has even been sued by a German agency.

As early as 2020, a Munich court in Germany ruled that Tesla had misleading marketing because it used the words "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" in its driver-assistance system. The lawsuit was filed by Wettbewerbszentrale (Competition Center), one of Germany's largest and most influential national self-regulatory agencies.

The German Competition Center said Tesla's use of words including autonomous driving on its vehicles was misleading marketing because the vehicles still required drivers to operate them. The group also accused Tesla of selling its cars promising they would be able to "drive themselves in cities," a feature of the company's FSD system.

Tesla filed an appeal, which was handled by the Munich Regional High Court, which ruled in Tesla's favor last October, but it was only recently made public, according to TeslaMag.de

The victory is important for Tesla because the competition center initially wanted to ban the company from using promotional terms like "autonomous driving" in its marketing. The Munich Higher Regional Court rejected the lawsuit, saying that anyone visiting Tesla's website and intending to buy an electric car would be informed that the car they were buying was not fully self-driving.

Still, the competition center did score a small victory in its efforts to rein in Tesla's allegedly misleading marketing of autonomous and fully autonomous driving, and Tesla had to modify some of the language on its official website in Germany that mentions future features of its vehicles. In the case of FSD, Tesla must state that it will be available "in the near future," not "by the end of the year."

Tesla's successful appeal to the Munich Higher Regional Court was reportedly final. CTOnews.com learned that Tesla has encountered the same difficulties in the United States, and the California Department of Motor Vehicles has also filed legal proceedings against it, which Anita Gore, deputy director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles 'Office of Public Affairs, pointed out. The purpose is to prevent drivers from misunderstanding and misusing new vehicle technology.