Have the real thermostat hidden somewhere else and make the one she changes a decoy.

The very last thing I want is to hook up everything to the internet. It's just another target for someone to hack and also I've found the greater complexity of a device the greater the probability of failure and the harder and more expensive is the repair. On the very rare occasion my 25 year old clothes dryer needs maintenance whichever repair repair tech comes out always says don't get rid of it. The newer models are only good for about seven to ten years and then have to be scrapped because something breaks that is too expensive to fix.

And in other news, gravity makes things fall down.

In laboratory research -it was found that anything in sufficient quantities was lethal to rats including water and air. However, the ones used to test Viagra died with a smile on their faces...

A lawsuit which will poof into an existential mist as soon as a software fix is installed. Agreed it's an issue to be dealt with but new technologies always have teething problems. Some people seem to assume that the way things are right now is the way they will always be. Tesla has acknowledged the problem and it is in their best interest to fix it and so they will. Now that it's gotten some publicity they will probably work on a solution that much harder. This literally isn't a life or death matter; most Tesla owners won't care as long as it is fixed and at most they will be owed some trivial compensation for the extra electricity used.

"I don't have to hold my tongue when someone is wrong or worry about formalities" This is incorrect. You should be professional in how you act at work; the only alternative is to be seen as unprofessional. Have fun but raise the bar on how you treat people. Be civil, be clear; what is obvious to you is very often obvious only to you. If you are sure you are right don't back down, but sometimes you will still be wrong and having to admit you were wrong after having acted like an ass can be humiliating.

Valid point but if you are just along for the ride what's the point? Other than a better view it would be like riding in a self driving car.

There will never be flying cars as a general means of transportation. People can barely keep it between the lines in two dimensions.

"...the document assumes that humans are causing the climate to change, an assumption for which there is no proof..." Wow, remember when the argument that there was no proof that global warming was actually happening? Now the argument is that it isn't caused by humans. What's next? "Global warming isn't caused by Americans!", "Global Warming is caused by people in the mid-west.", "Global warming is caused by neighbor"? The last I checked there was a 97% agreement among climate scientists that humans were causing Global Warming. Or is a statistical study of published peer-reviewed papers not a good indicator scientists agree on a given subject? Google 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' (now that's a mouthful!)

Please clarify, I don't understand what you are trying to convey. Thank you.

Google 'state of charge union of concerned scientists' and you'll find a PDF document that is a study of an Electric Vehicles’ (EV) emissions and costs. Page 37: "Over the lifetime of an EV, the owner can save more than 6,000 gallons of gasoline" Page 17:"a typical midsize EV could save nearly $13,000." Page 11:"There are no areas of the country where electric vehicles have higher global warming emissions than the average new gasoline vehicle." Page 37:"Nearly half of Americans live in regions where driving an electric vehicle means lower global warming emissions than driving even the best hybrid gasoline vehicle available."

See the short story "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron" in the collection "THE ULTIMATE ENEMY, THE BERSERKER SERIES" By Fred Saberhagen

When the Prius first got popular the same thing was said about it. Was soon proved false.