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I'm kind of astonished I have to explain this, but there's a difference between showing the product in the best possible light, and faking what the product can
by SilverBirch 4y ago
I'm kind of astonished I have to explain this, but there's a difference between showing the product in the best possible light, and faking what the product can do. As you say - it's hard to show well grilled steak on a video without special effects. So why not just use special effects? Because that would be fraud.
The key detail here is that the engineers went off and 3d mapped a route and used that to operate the car. That's not actually something the product does. That's fraud. You can totally produce that video and say "Here's how autopilot will work in the future" because you're demonstrating the intended behaviour, not claiming something about the current product. What you can't do, is fake what the product can do today, and then claim it's capable of that today. Unless Elon Musk plans to personally go and 3d map every journey I take for eternity then that's not an honest claim about how the product behaves.
Note, we're 7 years down the line, and autopilot still doesn't work. The average age of a car is about 12 years. So if you saw that advert, bought a Tesla, you bought it under the understanding that it had a feature it still doesn't have and your Tesla is (edit:~~half~~) quarter-way to being scrapped.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoI think the confusion is around what the term autopilot is supposed to mean.
- acdha 4y agoThat is completely Tesla’s fault: when you say the driver is only there for legal reasons, it’s not the public’s fault for taking you seriously.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoMaybe, but pilots are also taught to “fly the autopilot.” https://www.nxaviation.com/post/the-autopilot-s-impact-on-aviation-and-how-it-affects-automated-cars https://www.nxaviation.com/post/the-autopilot-s-impact-on-av...
- mrguyorama 4y agoAnd every human being is clearly an expert in honeywell flight automation and can rationally understand what it means. Wait, no, that's not correct at all and most people think planes basically fly themselves. They also don't seem to realize that "follow this carefully mapped and highly regulated GPS route" is a hundred miles away from "drive an arbitrary road route"
- acdha 4y agoHow much training does Tesla require you to complete before using FSD? I don’t think there’d be much criticism of autopilot if users were trained like pilots.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoAgreed. It’s almost like they are assuming a future where people learn this in drivers ed. This is a job of the government to act asap, since they are in charge of deciding if someone can drive.
- kube-system 4y ago12 years old would be half-way to being scrapped, assuming car sales are approximately constant, and it is of average expectancy.
- SilverBirch 4y agoUgh!