what gets on your nerves more, that you were dead wrong about it, or that you didn't act when you could have?

The subset of components which enable Autopilot are made by a host of vendors controlled by Daimler, not Tesla. Many interior components of the Tesla come from Daimler, from the radar/lidar sensors to the turn signal stalks. SO how is it they will dominate anything when they are licensing tech someone else controls?

this decade old argument went out the window about that long ago, you'd really need to have your head firmly up your rectum to continue believing it. In a free market, people don't attribute value to meaningless things. Given the price, there are obviously a lot of people who ascribe value to the ease of transmission, lack of correlation to existing financial assets, and deflationary nature. If you don't get it now, maybe you will when your centrally banked currency is in shambles from runaway inflation.

With the (average) quality of education so low in america today, the quantity required will certainly rise.