Current language models (misnomered as “AI”) are great at some things but fail at any real thinking.
Self-Driving works decently in predictable environments but anything outside of those limits can make it literally crash and burn.
Public road transportation by individuals just has too many cases where real decision-making is required.
Despite all their resources, I think they’ve given up. All the brilliant engineers and scientists have given up, because they know what we’ve suspected for a long time.
They are exiting due to musk shooting his mouth off and not being to really compete with anyone.
He wants to build robots so he can end up taking cats with opposable thumbs to Mars.
Its a much more likely scenario than him getting there.