That is where there is a disconnect between the Tesla marketing language and technical language.
They publicly advertise and collect cash for pre-sales of "Full Self Driving". Most Hacker News technologists (a generalization for sure) would reserve a phrase that bold for Levels 4 and 5.
But here they are in writing stating that they are currently only at Level 2.
So a couple core questions around Tesla are:
- Is it acceptable to take pre-orders from the average consumer for a feature that might be 10 years away?
- Is it ethical to use exaggerated marketing speak for specific technical functions (to give a non-Tesla example, this is like when I see companies implementing rule-based decision trees or linear regression and calling their apps "Artificial Intelligence")?
They publicly advertise and collect cash for pre-sales of "Full Self Driving". Most Hacker News technologists (a generalization for sure) would reserve a phrase that bold for Levels 4 and 5.
But here they are in writing stating that they are currently only at Level 2.
So a couple core questions around Tesla are:
- Is it acceptable to take pre-orders from the average consumer for a feature that might be 10 years away?
- Is it ethical to use exaggerated marketing speak for specific technical functions (to give a non-Tesla example, this is like when I see companies implementing rule-based decision trees or linear regression and calling their apps "Artificial Intelligence")?