Crushing WHAT competition? China? Honda? There wasn’t any other competitors except disinterested state govs until very recently – that’s not competition, that’s just the rich dominating the market unimpeded. There’s a reason for the very few paltry, weak advancements into space humanity has achieved – not enough spite to go around these days. Other companies have already shown that they can do car AI much better, just a matter of time before better those same companies start leading the new space race (again, like Honda). Spite won’t help this time, I think, but staggering amounts of money will.