Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves
efstajas@lemmy.world 5 months agoWait, so in your mind products need to have “working” in their name in order to be held to the standard of … working? I don’t understand what you’re trying to argue at all. They’re calling and selling this product as “full self driving”. It’s not full self driving. It doesn’t need to be called “working full self driving” in order for it to be misleading.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 months ago
No, the other user is claiming that they don’t have a “working” full self driving but is being vague about what they mean by “working”.
Full Self Driving is just the name of the software. There’s also autopilot but that’s different. The end goal of it is to eventually be capable of level 5 self driving so that’s why it’s named like that even though it has been a work in progress all of it’s existence. Wouldn’t make much sense to call is “partial self driving under supervision” because Full Self Driving is a better marketing term. Misleading? Well yeah perhaps but that’s what marketing teams do. Nothing new there. Not a single Tesla owner is under the illusion that you can just enable the system and take a nap. Doesn’t mean people don’t do that but they know that they shouldn’t. The system tells you that every single time you enable it.
Personally I don’t see a huge issue with that name. It’s level 2 meaning that it needs driver supervision and it’s by no means flawless but it does what the name implies: drives itself. It’s not just an advanced cruise control like for example the Mercedes Drive Pilot but it is actually capable of independently driving itself and especially with the V12 it’s actually getting quite good at it.
efstajas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think the other commenter is being is vague at all. “Full self driving” quite literally means Level 5, maybe level 4. That’s just what those words mean. There’s no argument here.
Yes, which is the problem.
Which is exactly why calling it “full self driving” now doesn’t make any sense. It’s false advertising at best, and a super dangerous overpromise at worst.
Of course it’s a “better marketing term”, because “full self driving” is the pinnacle of self driving tech, what Tesla and everyone else in the race is trying to achieve. The problem is that what they have is not full self driving. I’m not confused as to why they call it that, I’m arguing the point that they shouldn’t call it that.
Not at all. This is not typically what marketing teams do at all. It’s pretty damn unusual for a major corporation to sell a product under the technical term for what it may be at some point. Or do you have any other examples of this?
Maybe not, but do you really think no-one bought a Tesla based on Elon’s promise that it’d be fully self driving by 2019? Or that you could monetize it by having it run as a robotaxi at night by 2020?
Tesla and Musk not constantly overpromising and misrepresenting their product with false confidence might help with preventing people from placing undue trust in the system.
As you say, it’s level 2. “Full self driving” is level 5. You still don’t see the problem with the name?
It quite literally does not drive itself given that a driver needs to be around and alert to take over at any moment.