I think that ship has sailed a long time ago... especially after emissions scandal.
Also, have you looked at marketing in general?, is anyone actually telling the truth anywhere?
At least this was a promise that they'll do their best.
> "Buy this car and it'll have additional feature X in year Y. Don't listen to the non-believers, me and my team have this solved."
Does anybody buy 50K+ cars on promises?, especially since all reviews are very honest.
For me, they're gimmicks... but the inner child in me seeing the celebration mode on model X makes me want to buy it. Then I research it and find it's actually a great car, sure, no full self driving, but for 10K on top of 150K+ the features added are great.
Have a look: https://youtu.be/pXvIzWhEWvA?t=400
this is a problem because it introduces the same kind of bait-and-switch anti-consumer behavior we see with the sale of pre-release games, but on an automotive investment level.
"Buy this car and it'll have additional feature X in year Y. Don't listen to the non-believers, me and my team have this solved."
"Woops! Turns out that was harder than I thought, sorry to all the folks that bought this car under the premise that they'd get feature X. Better luck next time, it wasn't contractual; just some over-promised under-deliveries, you understand! It's marketing to lie to your face!"