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by peutetre 808 days ago
> The CEO's forward looking vision statements

They aren't vision statements. At this point they are just continuous lies, and lies that are no longer forward looking. The false claims are old and stale.

In 2016 Tesla claimed "as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was a lie: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

In October, 2019 Musk said, "Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road. The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That's all it takes." That was a lie: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

Tesla lies routinely with with faked full self-driving videos: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel...

And even dumber faked quarter miles: https://insideevs.com/news/699260/tesla-cybertruck-porsche-r...

The lies are a decade old: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

But it's all fine because Tesla claims its lies are constitutionally protected speech under the 1st Amendment. So that's a nice, not-warped-or-twisted-or-deranged-at-all perspective: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-11/tesla-dmv-...

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Everything you quote is Musk's goals for the future he wants to implement.

The website where you buy the car never said it was capable of that.

Nobody thought it was a robotaxi when they bought it.

> Everything you quote is Musk's goals

His goals that he lied about. His goals that he had set specific timelines for that were not, and are still not, achieved.

Musk is a liar. He lies.

> Nobody thought it was a robotaxi when they bought it.

Plenty of people drank the Kool-Aid. They were lied to and they believed it. They believed the lie enough to put money down for this false "vision".

They really should demand their money back.