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Of course I do. It's called marketing. It's a relatively cheap commercial to make, and the fact that it went viral proves it was a good use of budget.

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?

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the joke was that you never get to see the crash.

That's not an April fools joke...

April fools is about getting you to believe something happened when it didn't...

Tesla doesn't waste their time on crap like that. It's why they barely have anyone working in marketing or PR in the first place. The video was made from actual test footage, super quick, and they kicked it out.

...you think a real crash test would have a bunch of random people behind a window looking shocked like that? There's nothing more staged.

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.

It's a group of people bracing for a loud impact..

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.

I think you should put down the kool-aid.

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]).

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33910962

I said they don't do much marketing, and that's barely a marketing video, just some dash cam footage.

You have a weird definition of marketing.

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.

That video you linked is so old it’s the fact that they have very little marketing that they’ve never updated it.

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.

Are you serious? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-kajBcyew

Staging performers to act like fake robots on stage for a vaporware project doesn't strike you as exactly what you're talking about?

Real robot, being tested in real factory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xChD-gv_pc

You're ignoring the fact that Tesla does "waste their time on crap like that." And the robot isn't real. Watch the video I linked if you are actually honest with yourself.

People said SpaceX was wasting their time trying to land a rocket. High risk, high reward. The potential for advanced robots in vehicle production is a no brainer.

>People said SpaceX was wasting their time trying to land a rocket.

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.

Thunderfoot is a joke who feeds off haters like you. Half his critism is about products still in development. Totally ignoring how Tesla is pushing producing 2 million cars this year and SpaceX is launching more to orbit than the rest of the world combined.

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.

>Thunderfoot is a joke who feeds off haters like you.

>You must be jealous of real accomplishments.

Behave.

Look at this pretend production line that they are building

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/12s8gwa/cybertr...

I see you've pasted this on random comments in order to provoke further responses, please stop.

So... they're crisis actors? Maybe they're the same ones the government used for the school shootings?

Tesla was having a self-imposed robot crisis, so sure I guess.

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