Not at all, few years, at most a decade behind. Don't you feel a decade ago we had a bit better life? Many people think so. What did we gain? Certainly not mature usable self-driving tech.

Anyway giving a choice of bleeding tech or being slightly more conservative tech is something that is taken away by people like Musk. Maybe you prefer being such a choice-less 'slave' to the system and uber rich just to have some shiny new toy a bit earlier, most people don't and many systems consider it outright illegal.

I don't get how tesla is not already sued in Europe for massive frauds they did and do on their customers. I'll happily buy electric car in future but hell will freeze sooner than my family sponsoring those nazi cars, competition is pretty good these days.