Presenting a subset of the information to let the uninformed jump to favorable conclusions for the presenter is not a new marketing strategy. If there's no indication about the true level of progress, what is the purpose of the demo?
No, but they're familiar with the definition (start-to-finish entirely autonomous trip under somewhat-controlled driving conditions) even if they don't necessarily know the lingo to describe it. Being able to get from point A to point B without human intervention is what people expect when they hear "self-driving car", and the video does little (if anything) to temper that expectation (perhaps because it truly is ready for L4 deployment, or perhaps because it's all smoke and mirrors).
chrisseaton|5 years ago
The uniformed don't know what 'scalable L4 deployment' is, so they can't jump to that conclusion.
yellowapple|5 years ago