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This is exactly what makes Tesla so weird. It's very unusual to see so much misleading marketing from someone who has technology lead. > And I do of course th

by nabla9 5y ago

This is exactly what makes Tesla so weird. It's very unusual to see so much misleading marketing from someone who has technology lead. > And I do of course think Elon knows more, but he chooses to trick people to buy Tesla. Tesla has extremely weak board of directors. Innovator like Musk needs a board that provides constructive counterbalance. It seems that the board is just for the ride and they don't contribute anything. Tesla executives say in official documents that Tesla Autopilot is just level 2. The sales and marketing hints, suggests, and gives an impression of something much better. Tesla must have lawyers that understand that being smartass and just avoiding being explicit does not give legal protection if there is consumer class action. The court will look at all the evidence and try to figure out what was the intended message.

kamray23 5y ago
But what has Musk innovated in Tesla? All Musk has done personally is talk big and then walk back on that once the engineers who actually need to do the innovation can't reach his pipe dreams. In my opinion it's a company like any other, false advertising and all. Nothing out of the ordinary, it just presents itself as revolutionary. "Revolutionary" tech companies are super common now. Uber is literally just a taxi service which doesn't give employee benefits, Tesla is literally just "what if car battery", a fairly mature technology. Hyperloop is a train, Loop and Lyft are just "public transport but not next to the poors", it's all so stupid. None of these people are innovators in any way, they're just ordinary business owners who know that big promises pull in venture capital. Most of them eventually get acquired by one of the large Silicon Valley corporations and then become a new bit of the market. Rarely they go on for longer than a few years before the jig is up.

by nabla9 5y ago

kamray23 5y ago

But what has Musk innovated in Tesla? All Musk has done personally is talk big and then walk back on that once the engineers who actually need to do the innovation can't reach his pipe dreams. In my opinion it's a company like any other, false advertising and all. Nothing out of the ordinary, it just presents itself as revolutionary. "Revolutionary" tech companies are super common now. Uber is literally just a taxi service which doesn't give employee benefits, Tesla is literally just "what if car battery", a fairly mature technology. Hyperloop is a train, Loop and Lyft are just "public transport but not next to the poors", it's all so stupid. None of these people are innovators in any way, they're just ordinary business owners who know that big promises pull in venture capital. Most of them eventually get acquired by one of the large Silicon Valley corporations and then become a new bit of the market. Rarely they go on for longer than a few years before the jig is up.