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The one reason which made Teslas growth possible was that it was seen as a technologically superior car company. Great software is part of that.

There were actually many companies which tried small basic "urban" electric vehicles. You never heard of them.

Customers will not care about the cars people on here want. Customers want highly integrated software. Law makers are also demanding increasing software complexity.

>A car sitting in a Texas parking lot in July will get to temperatures that the engineers probably didn't think possible.

Toyota, Ford and VW have proving grounds in Arizona, because engineers know that cars get very hot. This is part of standard vehicles testing.



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