I'm not working for Musk, but the way I see it, he's funding a lot of research that someone couldn't get access to if they worked with say, BMW or NASA. So it m

I'm not working for Musk, but the way I see it, he's funding a lot of research that someone couldn't get access to if they worked with say, BMW or NASA. So it makes sense that someone could be there to just learn and fail on someone else's dime before they do their own thing.