> Having worked with automakers that agonize over pennies on a component how does Tesla amortize this much expense, if they even achieve full self-driving at all?

Or Elon is using the resources of one company to do work for another company (?):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

* https://electrek.co/2024/04/03/elon-musk-xai-poaches-enginee...