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0 pointsbeambot9y ago0 comments

I'm not disagreeing with you. I like the move; I think it's smart.

But saying it's an "autonomous car" because it has the sensors and computers just isn't so. When it gets the software, then it's an "autonomous car."

To use GPs analogy to the iPhone1: If Apple had just shipped the hardware without iOS, it wouldn't have been the iPhone.

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weaksauce9y ago

The iPhone couldn't cut and paste for a long while. Hell, iirc, there wasn't the App Store until iOS 2 or 3.

ethbro9y ago

I don't think the iPhone had iOS 10 ;). Apple is a pretty good analogy for what Tesla's HW/SW plans seems to be. "Reasonable" backwards software support (at least compared to the otherwise "none") while iterating hardware.

aerovistae9y ago

That I agree with, yes. But he always stretches the wording. It's his version of advertising, and frankly I prefer it over dancing hamsters.

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