Comment on Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car

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tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s extremely nuanced. ‘Light years ahead’ is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, ‘light years away’ doesn’t make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.

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