> Instead he decided to take a shortcut by buying a president and torching the regulatory system, and he'll succeed, but will that actually pay off? Self-drivin

> Instead he decided to take a shortcut by buying a president and torching the regulatory system, and he'll succeed, but will that actually pay off? Self-driving Teslas will be allowed without any questions nation-wide, but will people get into them after what he's done? I don't think he cares too much about self driving regulation compared to other factors. Trump's tariff's against Mexico greatly benefit Tesla by making the supply chains used by other American carmakers more costly. He can easily push for SpaceX contracts from the top down. And he can advocate for favorable policy towards X.ai, Twitter, etc. With regards to self driving, Tesla has always been in the grey area where their marketing clashes with their legal stance (i.e. that the human must remain in control at all times and therefore must keep liability). They've haven't bothered so far with the legal legwork to do real autonomous driving the way that competitors like Waymo did. And it will be make years before they need to do that, since their current tech is far from real autonomous driving.