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> I just wish Tesla would focus on this stuff without hyping an AI feature that can never happen. There's a good argument that Tesla wouldn't exist today witho
by wpietri 4y ago
> I just wish Tesla would focus on this stuff without hyping an AI feature that can never happen.
There's a good argument that Tesla wouldn't exist today without the hype. The enormous positive public image mad Tesla's cost of capital extremely low, and ditto its cost of marketing. Tesla needed a lot of both to get to break-even. Musk himself has talked repeatedly about coming close to bankruptcy. It's reasonable to believe that less hype would have meant less capital and fewer sales, nudging them at some point over into bankruptcy.
- bumby 4y agoThere’s a tipping point where the hype becomes excessive or even fraudulent. The ends justifying the means doesn’t absolve a business of needing to conduct themselves ethically.
- wpietri 4y agoOh, yeah, I think Tesla's well past the point of fraud. Musk promised "1 million robotaxis by end of the year", and that year was 2020. I don't think the end justifies the means at all here.
- cedws 4y agoElon Musk wants to be Steve Jobs so badly but the reality distortion field isn't working.
- wpietri 4y ago"You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And buying Twitter really put him in front of all of the people all of the time.
- adrr 4y agoFake it to you make it. FSD will never come on the current hardware.
- jacquesm 4y agoOr fake it until you crash...
- gregoriol 4y agoRemembering that they also added video games, crazy light effects, ... Tesla is surfing from one hype wave to the next one