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Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive (futurism.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

Another way to say that, is Tesla scammed all of their customers, since you know, everyone saw this coming...

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

salesmanship

You mean false advertisement

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago

Worse than that. Fraud. He's scammed people out of millions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Or just fraud

[–] sentient_loom 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's pure grift.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Right. Good salespeople listen to customers, not try to sell them something they a) don’t need or b) won’t work as advertised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah a judge determined it was just " puffery " and obviously he didn't really mean self driving

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Let’s not split hairs lol