Is it though? Tesla is selling them.

Admittedly pre-orders are essentially marketing, but marketing of an actual product with intent to deliver, I'm not convinced it's "marketing bullshit".

+1 Forget about trucks. What about trains? That's an even easier problem to solve than trucks.

Trains don't even need AI. It's the lack of good incentive (the required capital investment vs. potential for future savings) and angry drivers' unions that are stopping innovation there, I'm sure.

I am not so sure. It could also be the Christmas present Larry got for himself. At least more affordable than a rocket company.

I guess it is a mix of both. The SV elite pretending they can do another trick and keeping themselves busy and entertained and Google/ABC pretending they are a growth company (beyond search ads). Why should they bother with worldly billion dollar markets such as office communication equipment (which Microsoft is successfully attacking as we learned earlier today).

I'm not seeing where they're claiming that. This is just the landing page targeted at consumers.

This... so much this