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The Model S Plaid is also not plaid. I believe this is invented outrage, their actual capabilities are made very clear.

• lotsofpulp 3y ago
  Model S Plaid is not describing the paint scheme of the vehicle. Full Self Driving is the name of the feature specifically chosen to mislead about its capabilities.
  • itishappy 3y ago
    > Full Self Driving is the name of the feature specifically chosen to mislead about its capabilities. Full Self Driving was chosen to describe its intended capabilities exactly. Was the SLS misleading before its first flight in 2022 because it had yet to launch to space? Were the James Webb or Hubble falsely advertised during production? "They want us to call that thing a 'Space Telescope' when it's obviously a pile of mirrors on the ground..."
    • sokoloff 3y ago
      It would be wrong to have called Mercury "lunar orbiters" though.
    • abenga 3y ago
      If a space telescope is delivered to astrophysicists for use without being able to do what a telescope should do, hell yeah that's misleading. There's a massive difference between "I want to build thing x -> I'm building x -> I have built x -> Pay me for x -> Ok, here's your x, go ahead and use x" and "I want to build x in the future -> pay me for x -> here's x, go ahead and use it -> I am building x -> I have built x (I may not be able to build it at all, btw)".
• maxerickson 3y ago
  It's mostly not outrage, it's irritation. They don't need to be clowns about it, the name doesn't need to contradict the lengthy explanation of what it actually does. Nobody would be griping about the name being misleading if it was marketed as Tesla Tartan or something.