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.
I’m happy to dunk on musk as much as the next guy, but that title is bull.
Lightyears measure distance not time, how can they mess that up?
This might be the most lemmy comment I’ve ever seen.
Because he’s a long way away. Longer than miles away…maybe…light years?
Because the self driving tech exists, but it’s in the next galaxy
It’s actually on earth, in metro trains
Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car
Any questions?
Your point doesn’t help me because it shows that we can fold space-time to create a shortcut with warp technology.
It’s like they can do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/light-years ahead
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.
You’ve never heard the term miles ahead?
Tommy is miles ahead of Timmy in math class.
Clearly not referring to distance but it absolutely makes sense.
You have to read the title in context of millennial journalism title convention.
It is tiring, you aint wrong but there is context on why it makes sense tho
Neither the writer, the editor, nor the Telegraph’s readership are millennials.