Tesla Falsely Advertises Autopilot, Full Self-Driving Tech: California DMV

[superchroma]

I am honestly surprised as much time passed as it did before we got to this point. Tesla could have sold preorders for a future product called autopilot and gave away the current feature-set renamed as "smart cruise control" for free with every purchase and completely dodged this bullet. The current product would be no less remarkable for it either.

I worry that what may kill Elon's ventures in the end will be the collective weight of many small moments of impatience or hubris compounding over time, which is sad because the broad strokes have been fairly well played so far.

[nullhack]

Perhaps "Tesla Autopilot" can be the first Marketing Lie to vanish from the list: "Almond Milk", "Veggie Patties", "RNA Vaccine"...

And the plethora of USA Liar Laws such as the "Patriot Act", "Inflation Reduction" bill...

Until then, we live in a country owned by Marketers and Lobbyists, and Elon Musk can call his AI cars Self-Driving* as long as he likes

[mlsu]

This is the power of marketing. It can cut through the government on something like this for years.

Tesla should be #1 in the definition of a marketing-first company. Why are they not? Their marketing!

[seydor]

But we knew that already

[Rackedup]

But Tesla didn't see the consequences, yet.

[lern_too_spel]

We also knew that Elizabeth Holmes was bullshitting, but that didn't prevent other people from being taken.