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Slightly misleading title. VW's last generation of combustion motors will be released in 2026. Basic motor platforms can and do last for decades after initially
by costcopizza 8y ago
Slightly misleading title. VW's last generation of combustion motors will be released in 2026. Basic motor platforms can and do last for decades after initially introduced, so I think closer to 2040 is a safer bet.
- stcredzero 8y agoWhen you're talking about a "fade" in audio, there's a start time, an end time, and a duration. So it's not at all inaccurate from that point of view to say that combustion motors will fade away after 2026.
- jessriedel 8y agoThings that are not technically inaccurate but give the typical reader the wrong impression (e.g., me in this case) is pretty much the definition of "misleading".
- stcredzero 8y agoMany people are familiar with the media vocabulary of audio production and cinema/video editing. Just the word "after" is enough clarification.
- jessriedel 8y ago"Many" is not enough if most are misled. "After" doesn't fix the key ambiguity that is being exploited.
- awesomepeter 8y agoIs the word "fading" really so hard? It's a pretty common word IMO, not even specific to audio/video..
- jessriedel 8y agoI'm making an empirical claim: If you show people the headline, will they interpret it as a claim that there will no longer be a majority of combustion cars on the road by 2030, even though that's not the claim being made in the article. Not sure what else to tell you other than my confidence that a survey would show this.
- tomp 8y agoBut noone would call a "fade" a video that starts to fade out at 1h30m and fades out completely at 2h10m.
- stcredzero 8y agoIn the context of an industry that's been around for about a century, several years or a decade counts as a fade.