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Maalus@lemmy.world 1 month agoNo, the marketing was “a tesla towing a porsche is faster on a 1/4 mile than the porsche”. And then they only tested it up to 1/8th, and “extrapolated” that it would win 1/4. Which it didn’t. It simply was false advertising, even with everything going “their way”.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I don’t disagree with the way you put it there, the only part I disagree with in your comment above is that using a lightweight trailer should be considered a part of the cheating.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why isn’t it part of cheating? You wouldn’t be able to use that trailer on public roads. It’s not that they used a lightweight trailer, it’s that they took an already barebones trailer and then cut and hacked away at it to make it lighter.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because being able to accelerate just the combined mass of the two vehicles faster than the other can accelerate its own mass alone would still be impressive when that other vehicle is a high performance one.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It doesn’t really matter if it’s impressive still or not. What matters is what they said and what the parameters of the test are. They said “while towing” not “laden with the weight of a porsche on a weightless trailer”. It’d be like winning the olympics on steroids. Impressive, since most people wouldn’t come close even while taking steroids. But still cheating.