Your conclusion made me chuckle: 5-10 years isn't very long to get to a mass produced general purpose robot that's useful; and as Elon said they already make al

Your conclusion made me chuckle: 5-10 years isn't very long to get to a mass produced general purpose robot that's useful; and as Elon said they already make all of the components necessary - including aggressively working on AI including for visual systems - so they arguably only have refinement left and edge cases to figure out next - not a small feat but puts them 10+ years ahead of anyone who will try to copy them re: engineering talent, manufacturing, etc. As Elon has said people are generally terrible at exponentials, and so majority of people can't see or understand the economies of scale and synergy between everything he's doing - and the compounding effect that has on reducing costs and increasing speed of scaling - which then also compound with each other.