A few days ago, I saw that automotive media outlets found something really awful on Tesla's Cybertruck page. Most manufacturers give you a tow rating and use that in their advertising claims, but Tesla went
, there is a way to calculate drawbar pulls based on the torque of the vehicle. If you choose a towing target with low rolling resistance, and use a lot of torque , the pulling capacity should be in the millions of pounds. So, yes, the numbers will be very big .
But the problem with “near infinite” is that it’s a meaningless term. It’s not just vague, but literally meaningless. Mathematically speaking, something can either be infinite or not. If there’s too many to possibly ever count because you’d never get to the end , then it’s infinite. If it’s countable at all, even if it’s a really big number, then it’s finite. In other words, something is either infinite or it’s not, kind of like someone can either be pregnant or not pregnant.
The term “near infinite” has no precise mathematical meaning, but it does sound cool and scientific. It also sounds really, really big. It’s also hard to call it out as false advertising because it doesn’t actually specify a testable claim . It’s Musk’s style. But, I wouldn’t go as far as to call this fraud, because it isn’t really attempting to deceive people. Nobody thinks that a Cybertruck could pull Jupiter around the solar system . Nobody thinks Cybertruck will be Chuck Norris’s truck, and move the Earth instead of moving along the Earth.are probably a great way to understand this claim. Nobody really thinks Chuck counted to infinity twice.
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