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Re:Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on thre... by javierluraschi on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:54PM (#28004253)
That's a bit harsh. Many technology products have delays, it sucks, makes customers unhappy, but is not uncommon and is not considered lying, not in my book at least. Windows Vista was delayed for many many years [1]. They actually promised a full database replacement to their file system that it never really shipped, etc. This is not to criticize them, but just to say that when ambitious goals are set, it's often the case that delays happen. You can definitely make the case that maybe it's better to release products Apple-style and just unveil them when they are ready, that would be a fair point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista

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Re:Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on thre... by tsimionescu on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:35AM (#28004490)
It's not harsh. He sold cars claiming they can do FSD in the near future. He claimed he will have a million robotaxis in 2020. He claimed Teslas will pay for themselves in a year's time working as taxis for you (a bold faced lie even if FSD were here today).

Windows Vista and software in general are not even remotely comparable: they are not sold today with the promise of features tomorrow - they are generally sold when they're ready. Even pre-order games are usually refunded if they incur too huge delays or ship with significantly altered features (see Cyberpunk 2020).

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Re:Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on thre... by javierluraschi on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:13AM (#28004357)
Although, most V1 software is released early, as an MVP (Most Viable Product), get a lot of feedback and iterate. So it's a very reasonable approach to release FSD incrementally and get early adoption and early feedback. Again, it's a pretty hard problem to solve; so even if they fail, lots of respect from me to their team for getting this far.
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Re:Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on thre... by jacquesm on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:20AM (#28004405)
What will it take for you to admit that it doesn't exist?

Just like you can't be a little bit pregnant you can't have a little bit of FSD. You either have it or you don't. It's a boolean, and it's embedded in that word 'full'.

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