Comment by n0tth3dro1ds
3 years ago
> Was Steve Jobs lying when he showed a barely-working iPhone prototype on stage for the first time?
If Apple never delivered the features that he demo’d and went on to sell the phone for $650 with the promise of those features existing, then yes.
That's fair. I don't even pre-order games so I can't get in the mindset of pre-ordering features. But from a cynical, capitalist viewpoint, it looks like Elon found a way to sell hype directly and his fans were happy to play along.
And for a long time, and still now, a lot of the verbiage around FSD implies that "Availability of FSD depends on regulatory approval" which makes it sound like regulatory approval is holding Tesla back from giving this to you. Ironically, there's actual very little "regulatory approval" required if things work. So it requires very little regulatory approval and a whole hell of a lot of "actually make it work".