The optimism in that article is astounding, and that's coming from a dyed-in-the-wool optimist. I think this is a classic case of a layman underestimating just

The optimism in that article is astounding, and that's coming from a dyed-in-the-wool optimist. I think this is a classic case of a layman underestimating just how hard the technical problem of building a 100% autonomous car is. Tesla has some autonomous features, but the car still requires a human driver. Getting that last 5% of the problem solved for all the little, rare, unpredictable things that can happen in the real world is a really hard problem. I agree that shared self-driving cars are the future, and at some point sooner rather than later they will likely be electric self-driving cars. But as to which company is going to dominate that space is not easy to predict, and a company like Tesla is the underdog in a ring with heavyweights like Google and Apple.