Canuck
Well-Known Member
If Tesla promises something, they should only do that if they intend to actually follow through, and they should do so.
You're right but sometimes it helps to look at things from the bigger picture, or to at least try to put the disappointment in perspective. In my view, one of the main reasons (or the main reason) we have this truly amazing vehicle is because people dared to promise us what was once only "pie in the sky", to borrow your words. It's really hard, or perhaps impossible, to keep a lid on that type of thinking and, more often than not, it gets way, way, way, ahead of itself. But if it didn't, we'd all be driving our ice, hybrids or low range EV's. Sometimes you just have to take the bad with the good or you don't get any good at all.
Leonardo da Vinci "promised" the helicopter, by conceptually inventing it, nearly 400 years before it was actually invented. Think of the disappointment of all those people who saw the drawings but never got to see one actually fly, let alone fly in one! Something tells me that's the modern day equivalent of Elon Musk and Mars, if we don't self-destruct as a species first, which I fear we will.