“According to what Mercedes wants shareholders to believe” is, I think, what you meant to say.
Remember, every company working on making self-driving cars has a strong incentive to constantly claim that results are “just around the corner”. Because shareholders are fucking idiots, and they’ll put their money into whoever bullshits them the most confidently.
Need you be reminded that German carmakers were among those who rigged cars to cheat on emissions tests?
They got caught, but it proves they’ve been willing to lie and cheat and there’s no reason to believe that they’re not still willing, even if they fixed that particular problem.
Mercedes says “ten years” instead of “two” for exactly this reason. Compared to the “loudmouth Americans” it makes their claim look restrained, realistic, reasonable. It’s still bullshit, but it’s a flavour of bullshit designed to appeal to investors who imagine themselves as more discerning, smarter, less gullible.
The best cons work on people who think they aren’t gullible.
“According to what Mercedes wants shareholders to believe” is, I think, what you meant to say.
Remember, every company working on making self-driving cars has a strong incentive to constantly claim that results are “just around the corner”. Because shareholders are fucking idiots, and they’ll put their money into whoever bullshits them the most confidently.
That’s not what the German carmakers do.
We are laughing at American companies who do such bigmouth claims all the time, and call them liars, and worse.
Need you be reminded that German carmakers were among those who rigged cars to cheat on emissions tests?
They got caught, but it proves they’ve been willing to lie and cheat and there’s no reason to believe that they’re not still willing, even if they fixed that particular problem.
Well done for being a victim of their bullshit.
Mercedes says “ten years” instead of “two” for exactly this reason. Compared to the “loudmouth Americans” it makes their claim look restrained, realistic, reasonable. It’s still bullshit, but it’s a flavour of bullshit designed to appeal to investors who imagine themselves as more discerning, smarter, less gullible.
The best cons work on people who think they aren’t gullible.