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> Sure Tesla is in a 'war' against the existing auto-industry but I wouldn't say it is one that they won yet.

As the author states, the auto industry is acting like the allies in the early parts of the second world war. We all know how that ended.

We haven't gotten to the beginning of the end for this "war", in fact I don't think we've gotten to the end of the beginning. We're witnessing opening feints in the battle for supremacy in a nexus of advanced automation, sharing economy, and high availability networks.

Musk is the first one to couch the automotive industry in these terms. He won't get it perfectly, no one will, but the others will catch up. This is going to be a very interesting space for the next few decades.

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However, to take the analogy further, the aim of Musk isn't to put the other manufacturers out of business. He has openly stated that his aim is to increase the baseline of technology expectations. And WW2 most certainly did that.