Competition is good. It keeps you honest. The Manhattan project experienced competition, of the do-or-die type. It only was not internal, it was from the Nazis,

Competition is good. It keeps you honest. The Manhattan project experienced competition, of the do-or-die type. It only was not internal, it was from the Nazis, Japan, and later the soviets. Right now, the competition in the self-driving area is metaphorically as close to do-or-die as you can have in peace time. GM as a regular car manufacturer is toast, Cruze is pretty much their only hope. Uber is bleeding, if they pull self-driving off, they are kings. The German manufacturers are watching in disbelief as Tesla is starting to eat their pie. Conversely, Tesla knows that in what they are doing (electric cars) they don't enjoy any fundamental moat. If the Germans get their act together, they'll be able to make equally performant electric cars, but true luxury. The only one that's not really about survival is Waymo.