The definition of dictatorial government is either a single person or a small group of people. So there being three branches of government doesn't necessarily prohibit a government from being a dictatorship if they are all working together to enact their authoritarian control without constitutional limits.
But really this is just pointless semantics. It doesn't matter what it is called it is still a problem.
What reality do you exist in where Zuckerberg, Cook and Gates have rehabilitated their public image? At least Zuckerberg and Cook are currently seen as Trump sycophants and are personally despised for it.
Elon is not just a PR department away from being seen as an acceptable person. He did a Nazi salute for the world to see and most of the world finds him contemptible.
Also the only way manual driving diminishes is if the world invests more into public transportation.
I think you underestimate how quickly public sentiment can change. Just a few years ago there was public outcry, protests, etc for anything Musk related.
Now there is none of that, not many people talking about him in a political light and I'm certain public sentiment about him has gone up given it is now already more publicly acceptable to talk about things adjacent to him and his companies.
There will be die hards who will never change, but its clearly apparent on social media he is no longer getting anywhere near the hate he used to, and even people who previously weren't are now publicly praising things like Grok and recent SpaceX missions.
Every day I see contempt for the acts he committed through "Doge". The man is irredeemable. It's not like he personally does any work anyway. Any kind of accomplishment that happens at SpaceX or other companies is from hard working intelligent employees.
If not for the uncertainty around the extremely inflated Tesla stock price due to the lies he has told he would have been ousted years ago. He has no tangible vision of the future and no expertise in anything.
I think it is more likely that self driving in the way people have been led to believe would happen never will. Not from Tesla and not from anyone else. Which is bad for Tesla because they have put too many eggs into that basket.
The only thing they have left is the car and they are falling farther and farther behind.
If by GPS you specifically mean car navigation. Because almost the entirety of Garmin as a company is built around putting GPS into various things including wearables.
But even in automotive they pivoted to working with car OEMs instead of relying on sale of independent devices.
They were definitely a major player for a long time prior to smartphones becoming the number one GPS solution (for most cars). Garmin, TomTom, Magellan, etc
I remember their in car navigation being huge in the 2000s in the US, maybe 2005 or so was their peak, before that they were very expensive. Probably a lot of people know the brand just for that.
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