Also, outside of the zone of influence of an imperialist authoritarian power which would prevent them from handling the exploitation of their resources for the benefit of their nation instead of the profit of foreign oligarchs. See Petro-Canada privatization.
A car that calls the cops on you. Great. It could also park, lock the doors and hold you in while the police take their sweet time knowing you're already in a cell?
This reminds me of William Gibson's "The Peripheral" in which the protagonist runs a rural 3D print shop where everything has to be licensed and government approved. We live in the near future.
What I could see happening is Alphabet getting an exclusive lock on Tesla (probably not buying because the stock is too high) and then quasi-merging it with Waymo for a fully integrated, functional robo taxi company. A bit like when they bought Motorola phone division.
Lack of current-SCM incumbent compatibility can be an advantage. Like Linus decided to explicitly do the reverse of every SVN decision when designing git. He even reversed CLI usability!
Pssst! I think Linus didn't as much design Git as he cloned BitKeeper (or at least the parts of it he liked). I have never used it, but if you look at the BitKeeper documentation, it sounds strangely familiar: https://www.bitkeeper.org/testdrive.html . Of course, that made sense for him and for the rest of the Linux developers, as they were already familiar with BitKeeper. Not so much for the rest of us though, who are now stuck with the usability (or lack thereof) you mentioned...
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