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Some scientists did some "Teleportation" experiements with photons, this does not mean that when people think abut what teleportation means they think about pho
by simion314 8y ago
Some scientists did some "Teleportation" experiements with photons, this does not mean that when people think abut what teleportation means they think about photons instead of teleporting people like in Star Trek,
Similar autopilot for cars does not make people think about a card that drives itself but the driver must also be 100% concentrated on the road, the name implies something different and Tesla marketing knows that , the fans will try now to defend this bad choice with some bad examples from aviation, you need to go and ask people on the street what a car with an autopilot should be capable of.
- leetcrew 8y agoI really don't want to live in a world where my moral character is judged by whether some random people on the street think of the right thing when they hear the name of my technical feature. there is an inherent tradeoff between accessibility and precision in language. can we err a little bit on the side of precision in a technical field?
- ceejayoz 8y agoYou can call it whatever technically-correct term you want in the code, the FCC documentation, technical conferences, etc. When you're marketing it to the public, it's best to worry a little about how terms will be interpreted by laypeople, especially if said laypeople's lives are in the balance.