Dealerships are protected by law in ALL 50 states. The ONLY way Tesla gets around those is because there aren't any private Tesla dealerships (and quite a few states won't let them sell in their state). On a side note, I certainly sympathize with Ford. When they still "blue oval certified" their dealership, a dealership could fail for multiple years and still be "certified".

Gosh, I pay for 1Gbs and ONLY get 900Mbs. Oh wait... my home network just isn't fast enough. I love my Google Fiber (I'll duck now).

More importantly, anyone who can code in C, C++, C#, Delphi, etc... look at someone writing assembly language for anything other than a embedded ECU and ask "Why would you do something like that? If no one else knows how to do it, you can NEVER go on vacation".