You would think that 100 years of US Government support that the Oil companies could be weaned off of the billions in special tax and other benefits give them every single year. The benefits should go to companies taking us to the 21st century OFF of oil. Such as Tesla and Elon Musk's other ventures. Oops. DL;DR

While Chrysler/Jeep does a poor job of engineering its in-car computer systems (as shown by the film!) that has nothing to do with Tesla. Proper engineering makes ota updates safe from hackers (witness MacOS, Linux, and part of the time, Windows). Just be careful whose stuff you buy.

Since Microsoft bought Skype the Linux support went from fine to out-of-date to mostly unusable to skype-no-64-bit (so useless). I still have a few dollars credit on skype but will never use the cash. I used skype as a way to call numbers outside our landline zone, but now I just use a mobile phone: the cell signal is just enough better (now) to make that possible.

The Discovery Tool from Intel is a Windows executable. So how about the rest of us, Intel? Are our Intel CPUs vulnerable?

1981. Bought biggest Apple ][ with biggest screen and 2 floppy drives and printer. And visicalc - because it was hard to tell what visicalc really did from published articles but easy to understand with it on the system. $5000. Yikes. This Apple store (an independent) was run on an Apple ][ and it took 30-40 minutes to get the transaction entered and the bill calculated and printed. Added C compiler and wrote a simple nroff and wrote my own Fed/State tax program each year to do the calculations, 1881-86.

The last skype for Linux for Ubuntu is now 4 years old. And there is none for 64bit Linux. So there is no skype for Linux. And yet no one cares :-)

Tesla warms (or cools) the battery as necessary before and during charging to ensure the system works. At a SuperCharger recharging at outside temp of 106 degrees F it is faintly amusing to hear the fans in the charging cars all working hard to keep the batteries cool. If cold enough it would probably take a while to heat the batteries enough to really get charging started,....but I have no personal experience of that and am sort of guessing.

This is not quite the right question to ask as it hints that 'charging is charging' and 'batteries are batteries'. But Tesla goes to great lengths to control battery temp (cooling or heating the batteries as needed) and charge rate during charging to ensure the best possible batter life. Leaf just hopes you won't let the batteries get too hot or cold when charging (unsure about temp control while driving). I admit I don't quite know how to phrase the 'right question' :-)

Nope. On a long trip most stops will be 20 minutes at a SC and for a really long leg (or one up a mountain or in really cold or hot temperatures) one might, once in a while, take an hour. The distance between Super Charger stops would be 100-140 miles, usually. Driving from San Francisco to Palm Desert we stopped more than 20 minutes just once. To eat.

Jason Levine is exactly right. A second critical change needed is to eliminate the Berne Convention from the US. That copyright feature forces copyright on everything you jot down. Whether you want copyright or not. Copyright should be, again, something one requests through specific action (such as writing it in the work) rather than being automatic.

IBM is not a good example as IBM has been imploding for years, with layoffs every year. See Robert X Cringely for details.

Forgot to mention. The car instructions say AutoPilot is not to be used where there are crossroads. In the Florida instance in question there were crossroads.

The car instructions say the driver has to have hands on the steering wheel at all times and be prepared to take over driving. At all times.

In addition, the trailer was said to have a completely empty underside. None of the solid sheets installed on some trucks to improve fuel efficiency. So the road under the truck looked clear (sort of)

Plenty of modern gas-engine cars make no noise besides tire noise on normal local roads. Living on a corner with a stop sign I observe that even accelerating from a stop is essentially silent for many modern non-electric vehicles.