Low interest rates have caused an avalanche of VC. Now that interest rates go up, investors will be more critical towards what's being hyped and pitched. There’s a grey zone between an individual company like Theranos "faking it until you make it" and multiple companies collectively continuing the hype of autonomous vehicle development, which has so far managed to attract the astonishing sum of $100 billion, according to the WSJ. So far, not one single AV company has been able to land on the good side of "promising without a shadow of a doubt".