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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 3 weeks 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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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe he shouldn't have called it "autopilot."

[–] GatoEscobar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Copilot would just violate patents

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hot take, common words should not be patentable.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hotter take: patents shouldn't exist.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Knowing Elon, you'd think he'd have just called it something stupid like BroPilot to get around that

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

69420Pilot 🤣 DogePilot 🤣🤣 Concerning!!Pilot 🤣🤣🤣