If you view Tesla for what it is - a car company than the insistence doesn't seem dumb. They got all the hype and PR for the AI angle without the money pit tha

If you view Tesla for what it is - a car company than the insistence doesn't seem dumb. They got all the hype and PR for the AI angle without the money pit that comes with a real self driving project. Even if they eventually get cannibalized by actual self driving cars then they still made billions and billions in the process.