Which raises the question, if corporate drones are in control of vehicles and rocket designs, will we still have public-servant-style astronauts to admire and for kids to worship?
Roomy enough to hold a family of four, the car was designed to rocket down highways without a driver, since highways of the future would control vehicles by wire.
Costs are supposed to be kept under control partly by recycling 1960's-vintage airplane technology and partly by spreading rocket development and operating costs across various commercial, military and civilian missions.
Or all the other more then 20, 00 pieces of orbital debris like Spent Rocket Boosters left in space that can no longer be moved by a control center on Earth.