[maxcan]

Counterpoint - Tesla is trying to avoid a local maximum where they are able to do robotaxi's in cars with $300,000 of equipment on roads that are precisely mapped down to the centimeter.

Waymo and Cruise may have beat them to "first robotaxi" but I'm not convinced that they have anywhere near a scalable, sustainable model.

[kibwen]

This is analogous to saying "we're trying to avoid a local maximum where we are required to use expensive chemical propellants in order to fuel our space rockets; therefore we're going to double down on stuffing them full of larger and larger quantities of gunpowder".