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> When Tesla released the video, Musk tweeted, “Tesla drives itself (no human input at all) thru urban streets to highway to streets, then finds a parking spot.”

Obviously this was just extremely dry and self-deprecating satire from a master troll and shitposter, not an actual misstatement of fact by a CEO

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We need to somehow get "just trolling" as a legal loophole in our justice system.

I don’t know whether you’re being coy but this is rumored to be his strategy.

Though it may help legally, I'm surprised he still has people falling for the "tech genius" schtick when so much of his accomplishments are "trolls" that are apparently intentionally poorly made ruses.

So a more extreme version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery ?

Clearly "Tesla drives itself" is referring to the the company operating the vehicle. The "(no human input at all)" parenthetical is a nod to the fact that Elon's employees are considered personal chattel.

(/s)

Or that time he went to SNL and yelled "TOOOO THE MOOOON" about Dogecoin and his fans accidentally bought the top. What a troll haha!

> The video carries a tagline saying: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.”

This part is even worse.

There's also the AJ defense for it - that at this point in time, there is a public expectation that no reasonable person should be stupid enough to actually believe such a tweet. Everyone knows that the man is just playing a media character.

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