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Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive (futurism.com)

submitted 1 month ago by VantaBrandon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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"Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

Another way to say that, is Tesla scammed all of their customers, since you know, everyone saw this coming...

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sometimes I'm reminded that there's always a chance that they go submarine diving or some such with another overconfident crony who thinks their skills got them where they are today.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I would like them to try to go to Mars this coming January. I am sure with enough fuel one of Elons rockets can get it moving in the right direction, they can wing everything else as they go.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think he would go submarine diving, it would be more in-character for him to try and fail a moon vacation.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Makes sense. I'm not picky about which exact risks our entitled overconfident billionaires opt to take.