Copying intensifies. Joking aside, one of my latest worries is that China will win out in the end with its EV-focused industry, which will also be self-driving

Copying intensifies. Joking aside, one of my latest worries is that China will win out in the end with its EV-focused industry, which will also be self-driving vehicles for the most part. I think they're planning on doing to the western auto industry what they did to the western solar panel industry: encourage its own EV industry aggressively through subsidies and regulation, then subsidize exports, too. Western car companies in 2 decades = bankrupt. If half of the world ends-up travelling via backdoored self-driving Chinese cars 20 years from now, I think we're screwed. And I mean that even if the Chinese government has no intention of exploiting the backdoors maliciously itself - other than the occasional assassination of Chinese dissidents/critics (say no more than a few hundred a year - they've got to keep that sort of thing in check after all) and complete surveillance of your driving habits, what you say in your car, who you're seeing in your car, and other stuff like that, of course. The backdoors in there will be more than enough for every other malicious actor out there to exploit them.