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Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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I mean clearly. "Full self-driving" is marketing, and it is a lie. That's the point being made here. You don't have to care about it, but that doesn't mean it's not a lie.
I'm not not blaming the drivers. They were foolish enough to buy a Tesla and trust it with their lives for a start. But I am also blaming the marketing. Two things can be true.
You do know that marketing is, by its very definition, in practice all lies, right?
Wanna rent a VPN with military-grade encryption?
So you admit that this is in fact a lie?
"Hey, every psychopathic corporate entity that functionally runs our society lies to us all the time," is not a great sales pitch for why this psychopathic corporation should get a pass for its specific lies.
This is the depth capitalism apologists will stoop to with absolutely no self awareness.
I don't have to admit to anything because a) i'm not on trial, b) don't work or care for Tesla and c) don't give a rat's ass about your opinion on me :)
Marketing is and always has been mostly lies or half-truths. Yes, legislation has mitigated that to some extent but marketing is still marketing. You'd have to be cognitively impaired to take all that advertising to the letter (come to think of it, maybe that's why coffee in some countries comes with a warning saying it's hot... or microwave instructions must specify they're not suitable for pets).
You'd be kinda excused for believing in all the hype when AI/Tesla were just hitting the scene but nowadays? Get a grip.
Bitch all you want about how Tesla misleads or mismarkets their products (they do, anyone with two brain cells knows that) but if you's gonna use that as an excuse to trust a car to drive 100% independently and flawlessly because they said so... it's totally on you. Or your corpse.
You don't have to admit to anything, but you just did.
See? That's what I would call an "admission".
I... don't? I already said that if you'd been paying attention. It also does not release Tesla and Musk from culpability for lying to people about their product, many of whom went on to become corpses as a result of their negligent and malicious lies, many of them well before Tesla and Musk lost their credibility. I would also say that if your business model relies on selling dangerous bullshit to gormless rubes, then if those gormless rubes get killed by your dangerous bullshit, then you are culpable for that dangerous bullshit by virtue of targetting the gormless rubes.
Scammers target the mentally infirm by deliberately making their communications extremely unprofessional and laden with grammatical errors, that doesn't mean we blame those people for being scammed.
Also if you have to invent an imaginary version of the other person - someone who drives a Tesla and believes it is actually fully self driving in this case - in order to make your point, then it's probably not a very good point.