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Presenting a subset of the information to let the uninformed jump to favorable conclusions for the presenter is not a new marketing strategy. If there's no indication about the true level of progress, what is the purpose of the demo?

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> to let the uninformed

The uniformed don't know what 'scalable L4 deployment' is, so they can't jump to that conclusion.

No, but they're familiar with the definition (start-to-finish entirely autonomous trip under somewhat-controlled driving conditions) even if they don't necessarily know the lingo to describe it. Being able to get from point A to point B without human intervention is what people expect when they hear "self-driving car", and the video does little (if anything) to temper that expectation (perhaps because it truly is ready for L4 deployment, or perhaps because it's all smoke and mirrors).

> under somewhat-controlled driving conditions

I don't even know what this means, so I doubt the uninformed know the definition.

Meaning one can see the road, chiefly.

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