Comment by acdha
3 years ago
I would definitely support some rules like that for pre-orders: once you start accepting money you have to be very up-front about the state of the product and test results. If that’s too much, do conventional R&D and tell people they can buy it when it’s ready.
Agreed. It could be also regulated the way e.g. investment ads are, so you always have to explain that this is not a finished product and that it may be different on release or in fact never be finished.
I won't defend Tesla here, but I think e.g. the gaming world is often unfair to game studios and game developers when a game is launched and is different from what was presented on some conference before. Scope changes, priorities change, playtesting changes the original plans, resources are limited. It's normal. When the end product is different it doesn't mean the developers lied when they originally presented it.
imho.