Are you referring to the viral April fools video they released a couple weeks ago showing "crash testing" without any crash? Which was presumably just very slow driving with the video sped up, because they didn't want to damage their prototype?
If you were doing real crash testing you wanted to show off, you wouldn't skip the actual crash... It was a joke.
Setting up fake scenarios is basically every TV commercial ever. That doesn't make them conspiracies.
Also it was April 1. It was a joke video, get it?
Obviously yes this was put out by marketing. And again, you are completely ignoring April fools.
The intention is for the viewer to be in on the joke... I mean, it's pretty funny. It's excellent marketing. Just don't confuse it for the real thing.
You're kind of embarrassing yourself here imagining that Tesla 'staged' a run of the mill crash test.
Especially when I also posted a video of auto industry experts analyzing it as well.
Tesla's Autopilot page [1] still has a video demonstrating it's self-driving capabilities but the video is actually a composite of videos taken over numerous runs because the car hit objects and ran off the road during some of them which does not make for good marketing material. (previous discussion [2]).
That video is purely for consumption by a possible consumer; you can't get any more marketing than that!
I think you missed what I said. That isn't some footage that they pulled from some random test drive. They picked a route and drove it over and over until they had enough footage to splice together to appear as a successful run. The primary feed is also not filmed from a dash cam.
But it doesn’t matter because there are tons of the same kind of video on YouTube uploaded everyday.
You think this is a big deal, when people are driving places daily with it just fine. I myself only drive like 10% of the time while autopilot does the rest. Gets better every month as well.
Staging performers to act like fake robots on stage for a vaporware project doesn't strike you as exactly what you're talking about?
Others did that before. It doesn't appear that you are capable of having a good-faith discussion on this topic given your tendency to change the subject and offering incorrect information. If you did not watch the video there is no point in further conversation.
But yea focus on the stuff in dev as if that negates the rest of the real progress.
Trivializing the significance or landing full size boosting from orbital velocity reliably is laughable. You must be jealous of real accomplishments.
>You must be jealous of real accomplishments.
Behave.
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April fools is about getting you to believe something happened when it didn't...