For myself, I can visualize things to a degree that is indistinguishable from a memory. For example, there is a sculpture of a dinosaur at our local zoo. It is a brachiosaurus. I can remember it and its surroundings, but I can also replace it with any other object and it will be just as valid in my "mind's eye". I can put a bronze chicken and it is just as clear as my memory. I am afraid this would make me susceptible to gaslighting of less ingrained memories, because I can conjure up just as vivid fictions if prompted.
On a side note, why is the autocorrect for brachiosaurus, brontosaurus?
The GM/Ford and Tesla comparison is beyond comprehension. All three's values are investor driven and those investors want different things. Ford/GM are viewed as reliable, slow moving goliaths. Their investors don't want radical change, they want the new F-150/GMC1500 to sell well every year. Spare funds are used to search for the next big thing. Meanwhile, the Tesla investors want innovation; they want to not compete in the existing market but to become the leader in a new, emerging market.
Energy companies don't want to radically develop new technologies. They have a profitable position and will move to refine their abilities. Let a smaller company shoot their shot; if it works, the existing corps will simply buy them out.
If you want risk, you need to not have risk-adverse investors. You need to have the researchers in the boardroom, not the accountants.
I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder. -- M. Gallaher