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Tesla calls this feature "Full Self-Driving Capability" and pretends that the word "capability" is understood to mean it could eventually be capable of it, some
by pavlov 5y ago
Tesla calls this feature "Full Self-Driving Capability" and pretends that the word "capability" is understood to mean it could eventually be capable of it, somehow.
It's like if Apple were selling a smartphone with 80 Megapixel Photo Capability, and the fine print reads:
"Devices equipped with 80MP Photo Capability do not have an 80MP sensor. The capability refers to the hardware's ability to potentially upscale images to this resolution. We don't yet ship software that enables the 80MP resolution."
(I was stupid enough to pay for this bullshit FSD feature on a Model 3. Nice car otherwise, but with Musk it's always caveat emptor.)
- joe_the_user 5y agoThe "capable" weasel word is pretty deceptive. But the sad thing is that these weasel word are becoming just common and standard enough that I, someone who sort of studies this stuff, can understand them and warn friends that "X capable" mean less than X. And that situation gives the marketers some amount of push back - "see everyone knows X capable isn't X".
- IshKebab 5y agoBut there are numerous marketing pages, quotes from Musk etc. where that sneaky distinction isn't made. Honestly I don't know why there hasn't been an enormous class action lawsuit from people like yourself who were fooled into paying for something that has never and can never be delivered. Surely that is fraud?