My last sentence was about dispelling the myth that Rimac is self made. Rimac never said where he got the money for racing and re-building his electric BMW (multiple times) when he was 18, nor did he ever explained where he got the money to develop a super sport car Concept_one.
It's interesting that you decided to focus on just 1 sentence in my comment, but ignored majority of facts about his self driving project, which was actually the topic of this thread.
Buying the software isn't the problem here. The problem with Project 3 Mobility (Verne) is that they made a lot of promisses to get the EU money, together with other benefits from the Croatian government. They didn't deliver on anything so far. Couple of things come to mind:
1. Prototype was supposed to be out in 2022.
2. "Mobility center", infrastructure for charging etc was also supposed to be done in 2022.
3. Street testing of cars and beginning of manufacturing to begin in 2024.
4. Cars that will have L5 autonomy.
They might start operating in Zagreb in 2025.
Also - fanboy here - Mate Rimac is great. From adding an electric drive to a BMW in his garage to CEO of Bugatti is an amazing story. Engineer and tinkerer. Great to have those as CEOs.