The parent I replied to said frontier weights were “being stolen” which is not the literal case. I think precision is important here.
replyI agree. That's why I said that the weights were not being stolen, and then explained what is actually being done.
replyFantastic, thank you for the explanation!
reply...good for them?
replyWe used to call that competition.
Imagine making this argument with a straight face in any other industry:
"The claim is that Japanese car companies are buying Ford vehicles, and then leasing them to American consumers at cut-rate prices. In return for the cheap cars, the customers are letting the Japanese observe their driving behavior, studying how they use their F-150 and then the Japanese car companies are applying that data to design new vehicles that will directly replace Ford!"
I wasn't arguing against the practice, I was clarifying that the weights of these models are not being stolen, and explaining what these companies do to create their models.
reply> observe their driving behavior
replyThat's not what they are observing, it is the behavior of the engines.