"Bringing Robotaxis to market is very capital intensive". With the front and center approaches rooted in the DARPA Grand Challenges yes, with much of that money

"Bringing Robotaxis to market is very capital intensive". With the front and center approaches rooted in the DARPA Grand Challenges yes, with much of that money being spent on propping up simplifying assumptions that break at the tail end and on technologies that will be obsolete in a couple years. HD mapping curated by humans, human annotation for training/testing data, Lidars, and all that superfluous real world testing, will soon be replaced by approaches that are orders of magnitude more capital efficient. The less efficient approaches that currently dominate will sputter at 1% market penetration at best.