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I like the idea, but have my doubts that 'design by commitee' is going to work better here than it usually does.

Also, the required funding is enormous - not sure if they mean financing the whole project? That would be outside anything JumpStartFund / Kickstarter / whatever could collect.

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Well you'd initially fund a scaled-down prototype, not try to build the whole thing immediately from scratch.

Having a bunch of people working on a prototype, with responsibility spread over all of them, seems a good way to have the prototype fail.

Musk is busy and can't help, but you need someone like a Musk who has the attention and energy to be in charge and make sure you have useful goals and you are moving towards them.