Today's announcement says my existing T-Mobile phone already had satellite capability!!
They just need to get the satellites up.
They just need to get the satellites up.
It’s kind of sad people fall for this. It also has lethal consequences as people assume it can do things it very well can’t (cruise control+ is really what the feature is). It’s a very obvious grift and SEC and FTC regulators have apparently been asleep at the wheel to enforce it. Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a shareholder lawsuit at some point. Certainly if the stock collapses once someone beats Tesla to level 5.
[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/new-tesla-models-will-featur...
Sure his talk was dumb and a lot of people fell for it, but that's just how marketing works.
It might suck, but it’s not fraud.
"It's not a lie if you believe it."
-- G. Costanza
Anyone who thinks predictions about the future hold the same weight as statements about things that currently exist ought to know better.
The unsettling duality that Tesla fans will accept is that somehow Musk is both an unrivaled genius AND he's consistently betting incorrectly on Tesla's timeline for L5. When other self-driving experts in the field indicate full L5 for the industry is probably a decade or so away (optimistically), I'm not keen to believe that Musk is just blinded by pure optimism for 6 years running.
(note the FSD mode here is basically a brick on the accelerator)
FSD requires constant human supervision. It has nothing to do with level 3 or above.
Of course, they are launching with SpaceX. They might get sherlocked before even finishing their product.