Q How did you decide that this was going to be an in-house effort versus a partner effort? That given most people who made cars said we're going to go partner or buy something here.
A I guess the emotional slash philosophical is on things that are really important, we've taken the approach of vertically integrating them. So electronics, our software, all the high voltage systems in the vehicle, so things like motors, inverters, Uh, all the power electronics. These are all things we, we develop and build in house. And in a few cases, you know, we had to start with something that was either off the shelf or partially off the shelf, but today, all of that's completely in house. And in the case of self-driving, we knew that long-term it needed to be something that was developed internally. We started, as I said, with a mobilize centric solution, which a lot of folks did. Right. Particularly in like, you know, that 2015 to 2021 timeframe. But when you really look at what's necessary to, to be successful, In a neural net based approach, there's a core set of ingredients that very few people have, and I think we uniquely have them. So first and foremost, you need to have complete control of the perception platforms. You have all the, everything that the, the, the system is capable of observing, whether that's cameras, radars, or lidars, or some combination of all three, you need to control that, meaning there's no intermediary company that's like processing some of their information. And so that's powerful because you can then Feed raw signals into your system. The…
AI assessment note: “on things that are really important, we've taken the approach of vertically integrating them.”