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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 1 month 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 1 month ago (6 children)

salesmanship

You mean false advertisement

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Or just fraud

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's pure grift.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Let’s not split hairs lol