I think there is a similarity, though. As a customer or buyer, you don't know if Tesla will ever be able to do L5 self driving. Neither does someone spending

I think there is a similarity, though. As a customer or buyer, you don't know if Tesla will ever be able to do L5 self driving. Neither does someone spending 1k dollars on items in a video game ever know if it'll actually be done. You can take a wild guess in both cases and for most kickstarter projects there might just be some normal hickups and delays. People are still willing to shell out a lot of money based on some promises, because of "wanting to be involved" or part of that lifestyle.