and I'm hoping no one takes some dumb post on an anonymous message board and decides to buy the stock. My entire post was to say that I was wrong about one of my opinions about Tesla and am now much more optimistic about their future.

I think you are correct that we will see more collaboration. Mary Barra of GM has pushed the other car auto manufactures to adopt a universal car to car communication system for example. Ford and GM even co-developed a 10 speed transmission. Lots of that going around right now.