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Tesla Cybertruck's Race Against a Porsche 911 Was Apparently an 1/8-Mile Run
- yuppiepuppie 3y agoEh, this is called “marketing”… I’d like to see how they analyze other car advertisements for their accuracy as well.
- clouddrover 3y agoLying isn't marketing. It's just lying.
- that_guy_iain 3y agohttps://www.amazon.de/-/en/Seth-Godin/dp/1591845335 https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Seth-Godin/dp/1591845335 would disagree
- clouddrover 3y agoSeth Godin can be wrong if he wants to be. It's possible to advertise without lying about your product.
- yuppiepuppie 3y agoIt’s certainly possible, and the right thing to do. But I have personally seen multiple times the “fake it till you make it” attitude in marketing products. I would have rather seen the other approach, but in the end it worked to get it off the ground.
- chaostheory 3y ago“All marketers are liars” A good portion of marketing is about lies that we (or other people) want to believe
- quantified 3y agoLying overlaps marketing. The pizza you get never has the density of toppings in the ads, nor the soup all the chunky bits. Your battery life doesn't match the manufacturer claims. All the fine print spells out how you can't claim that prize. It's a spectrum with some tolerated boundaries, just like we abhor lies between people except for the ones we accept (Santa Claus to the kids, you have a beautiful smile, etc.) But this is, again, just another Tesla Musk lie. Perhaps he was just "being sarcastic."
- vjjsejj 3y ago> Your battery life doesn't match the manufacturer claims They are still measuring that in a defined standardized way. It might be very different from real world conditions but that doesn’t mean that they are explicitly lying.
- rsynnott 3y ago> The pizza you get never has the density of toppings in the ads, nor the soup all the chunky bits. In some countries (including the US, actually, I thought), regulators have started cracking down on this, though it certainly used to be the case that food photography was basically all about fraud.
- yuppiepuppie 3y agoAny source on that crackdown?
- mnd999 3y agoIf they’re lying the ad should be banned, it would be in the UK. But anyway, who cares? Racing sports cars is not what you buy a truck for, and even if you did the sports car would destroy it on corners. Make the truck slower, make it cheaper. It’s for moving stuff from a to b.
- vjjsejj 3y agoIt’s not like they are selling or planning to sell it in the UK to be fair
- clouddrover 3y agoFair? Serial liars use up the available goodwill until there is none left. This is the reputation Musk and Tesla want to have. They have gone out of their way to earn it. It's a shame they feel the need to lie so often.
- quantified 3y agoThe Cybertruck is for moving people's cred points to your ledger, not for taking cinder blocks to the construction site.
- xethos 3y ago> not for taking cinder blocks to the construction site Considering the bed height of modern trucks, neither is most of the competition.
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- that_guy_iain 3y agoI am not sure there is even a lie. The video shows 1/8 mile and is only a 5-6 second race. While it talks about 1/4 mile that takes 11 seconds. Edit: I am not sure why people are unhappy. But if they say they can do 1/4 of a mile in a certain time and they can, it's not a lie even if they show a video of 1/8 of a mile run.
- pengaru 3y agoWe used to bet on parking lot races of pedestrians vs. cars/motorcycles, where the distance was measured in parking spaces. Fun times. Fit pedestrians reach full speed pretty quick!
- fooker 3y agoYes, that's how drag races work. 1/8th and 1/4th mile are standard.
- gpas 3y agoWant to make a statement? Beat the 911 on the Nordschleife.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoSo, battery overheated and car starts limping before end of first lap like previous Teslas?
- Ekaros 3y agoI think this is pretty reasonable real world baseline for sportiness. One lap is enough, but could go for distance in hour or multiple laps for even more credit.
- taylodl 3y agoExactly. Otherwise it's a lame PR stunt.
- Havoc 3y agoBecoming a bit of a trend with Tesla. One always needs to look closely for subterfuge
- dzhiurgis 3y agoThe trend is mass-media publishing unconfirmed hearsay.
- taylodl 3y agoWhile Tesla continues with their publicity stunts Rivian is out there actually selling trucks. I live in the US Midwest and I've seen quite a few of them on the road. I would wager I'm not going to see nearly as many Cybertrucks.
- 303uru 3y agoTons of them in the Denver area. From a purely mechanical standpoint the Cybertruck actually seems pretty damn good, if they'd put a more standard SUV/truck on it it would sell, I can't imagine anyone outside of Elon bros wanting to drive this thing.
- fooker 3y agoI suspect that's going to be their next move after the platform is ready. They did the same thing with making Model 3, scaling production, and then making Model Y on top of it. This trick is what made them the behemoth they are, in the car industry.