Very grateful to misunderstandings like this. It had caused Tesla and several tech stocks to be severely undervalued in the market. At 40$, I knew Tesla was worth 140$. And sure enough it started to go up suddenly mostly because of media coverage.

Traditional car investors look at certain tried and proven market indicators to judge stocks. When new tech comes along, they don't know what to think. So they think here and there like in this case.

The real value in bringing self driving tech here is to provide cool features to the buyer, not necessarily bring the stock of the company up. If investors do not know how how to place value on this, I only shrug.