Im curious about the timing of this announcement.

On the surface, it seems to take the wind out of their sails.

They told us the cybertruck was awesome.

They told us flying cars soon.

Now we see the fate of the first promise.

I would have delayed this announcement for as long as possible after the flying car show from a PR perspective.

Which makes me think this announcement is throwing a bone to the financial bean counters ahead of the potential merger with SpaceX.

Cleaning the companies books of fat before the big game.

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qlte 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You have it backwards.

The Musk strategy is to quietly drop failures/broken promises from a previous hype cycle after kicking off a brand new hype cycle to take its place.

This is entirely consistent with his tried and true strategy to constantly redirect attention forward to the distant future, and never stay idle long enough to encourage looking back at the ever growing pile of ideas that didn't work out.

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alt227 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They have also renamed the 'Full Auto Driving' feature to 'Driving Assist'.

Literally nothing Tesla promised is coming true.

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x187463 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It's called Supervised Full Self Driving (FSD) and that is an accurate name given it controls every aspect of the vehicle's operation, only requiring the driver to pay attention as a supervisor. And, essentially, the same software and hardware available on a Model 3 and Model Y is present on the CyberCabs that are driving people around a few cities, now, without input mechanisms. Elon is a PoS, and it took a decade longer than he said, but the cars are driving themselves.

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alt227 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> It's called Supervised Full Self Driving (FSD)

Not anymore, now its "Assisted Driving"

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

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x187463 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It's Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe. In the US, it's still FSD.

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alt227 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes thankyou for confirming my point. How did I know you would come and be pedantic about it?

I live in Europe, and here its not called Full Self Driving because regulators disagree with you that the car is driving itself. Therefore your original statement of "It's called Supervised Full Self Driving (FSD) and that is an accurate name given it controls every aspect of the vehicle's operation" is not true here at all.

If the US is happy with Elon lying about his cars abilities then thats on them. Not surprising really judging by the mess that is the USA in recent years.

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small_model 9 hours ago | parent [-]

European regulation is a joke, that why they are failing, look at the riots in France, businesses strangled by regulation.

	▲	alt227 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> businesses strangled by regulation Trumps current mess with huge increases of cost of living, and subsequent popularity decline is an example of what happens when you let business run free.

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lotsofpulp 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This isn’t news to anyone following the business. I’m pretty sure it was announced months ago that model X and Cybertruck (and maybe Model S too) were being discontinued.

And Model 3 and Y have always been 95%+ of the cars Tesla delivered.

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momento 12 hours ago | parent [-]

It was also mentioned in the Roadster presentation that the Roadster would be the only nonautonomous car produced by Tesla long-term.

	▲	DonHopkins 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not everyone may have seen Robby Roadster's famous presentation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/31x-4YJUBNE

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khalic 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

*flying car shaped air tank and thrusters