That's correct, but Starship is one of those Elon projects, like cybertruck, where the boss has a brain fart and tells his underlings to just make it work.
$1M or a car? You could buy several very very nice cars for that amount. The kind of person who thinks this is a tough choice must be their target market.
Of course, AI invalidates Asimov's assumption in this article. He claims that universal surveillance is impossible due to the manpower it would take to accomplish. We now seem to have invented a machine that does it for us.
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