Let's take Tesla and cars out of the equation and look at it in a different light:
I went to the bakers yesterday and bought 12 cakes for $100. They also had on offer 10 cakes for $80. Now I didn't really need 12, but they had some extra red sprinkles, so I thought what the heck. The baker seemed a nice man, and he told me his bakery was inventing some new cake formula that was so much cheaper in the future children in the orphanage would be able to buy cakes that tasted just as good as mine for $0.50 a go.
I got home and ate some of the cakes and they were might delicious. In fact they were the best cakes I'd ever tasted.
The next day having eaten far too many cakes, and feeling a bit sick if I'm honest, I noticed there was only 11 cakes in the box not 12
So I phoned the baker to ask if I could have another cake.
The nice baker then explained to me that: "The '12 cake' offer referred to the number of cakes that could possibly fit in the packaging and not actually the number of cakes."
I wasn't happy about this at all. I said "But I thought I bought 12 cakes and only received 11. If I knew this I might have bought the package with 10 cakes which clearly had 10 actual cakes in them. How can this be?"
The baker quickly replies "Well for any cakes sales over 10, Baking Trend Magazine considers this to be 'Extreme Confectionery' and we use their standard of measurement which is not based on true counting, rather how people in eating competitions are given a head start"
Still confused I asked "What about the 11 cake offer you did last year? I bought that and received 11 actual cakes?"
"Well," says the baker, "I have a new offer coming. It is my special "Baker's Dozen" deal. Here I sell you 13* cakes, but you receive 12 actual cakes in a package that could fit 13. What I can do is take one of the cakes from that and give it to you for a special price. But it will cost you $5"
I still think the cakes are tasty. However now they have a bitter after taste.
Personally I think the owners deserve their extra cake!!
I knew there was a better way to explain this! Thank you, now I'm actually craving some good cake