Comment by acdha
3 years ago
What makes it staged is saying “Tesla drives itself (no human input at all) thru urban streets to highway to streets, then finds a parking spot.” — no qualifications or caveats, just a sales pitch for a 10^4 USD pre-order which will not ship in the service life of the vehicles it was sold on.
(Corrected sloppy math, see below)
Nit: 10^4 (10E3, 10E5 would conventionally be 10*10^5 or 1,000,000)
You’re right, I blame commenting while taking care of a sick kid. Thanks!
Exactly, and for that matter, why not just write 1E5?
Just writing without an editor - the main point I was thinking was that it was quite a significant upcharge. It’d be one thing if they had a, shall we say, optimistic video about future vehicles but selling something for that much money that implies it is a lot closer to available.
I mean, didn't it do exactly that? Just only once?
The clear implication is that you should buy one because it can do that for you, too. Sales would be far less likely if they showed the clips of it crashing or stalling.
There's no reason to apply such an implication. This was a tech demo! No one ever claimed that was something production cars could currently do at the time, nor would that make any sense, as the cars clearly did not do that at the time.
An article from the time clearly interprets it as a tech demo: https://electrek.co/2016/10/20/watch-tesla-new-full-self-dri...
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No, it was very clear that it cannot do that for you at that time. The only implication was that it will do it soon, which didn't happen.
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