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The difference between saying your car is "the ultimate driving experience" and that your car has a "full self driving" mode is the difference between puffery a
by frob 3y ago
The difference between saying your car is "the ultimate driving experience" and that your car has a "full self driving" mode is the difference between puffery and straight up fraud.
- ethagknight 3y agoOne should be taken literally in every circumstance, but the other shouldn't?
- TheAlchemist 3y agoHow do you take 'ultimate driving experience' literally ? Taking your initial analogy, it's the difference between not sleeping well in the 787 Dreamliner, vs said Dreamliner crashing before landing.
- ethagknight 3y agoNo, you took the analogy too far. It's just a trademark name that doesn't fully live up to the hype. Let's look at GM's Supercruise, which is marketed as "hands free driving." Well guess what: you still need hands to drive it. I believe people are being overly dramatic and think they are entitled for Elon's overcommitment. I agree that Tesla overpromised and underdelivered. Meanwhile, I am happy to use and optionally pay for FSD as delivered. It is really an amazing technology and significant.
- frob 3y agoIf I asked 100 people what "ultimate driving experience" meant, I would get 43 different answers, 58 of them being people telling me it's bullshit nothingness. If I asked 100 people what it meant for a car to be "full self-driving," 99 would say it means the car could fully drive itself. The final one is too busy sucking up to Elon.