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No carmaker has a city-driving autonomous vehicle that doesn't require super-precise, cm-scale, unrealistically always-up-to-date maps for the AI.

Ha, Harman tried that with a recent project of theirs that is in serial production now for a big carmaker.

The carmaker cannot guarantee emissions, safety or its operation if tampering is permitted.

At its heart, Tesla is a software developer dressed in a carmaker's robes.

So many people freak out about it, but that US carmaker with the stupid ignition killed more people and we aren't giving up cars.

I attacked a Harman QNX device done for a different carmaker.

My first guess is that, for customer liability (incorrect field repair could feasibly cause fire; the uncontrolled nature of field repairs may have affects on reliability later) and employee safety (careless tech could burn himself on battery) the carmaker does not want anyone except the assembly manufacturer or a special purpose facility to do this kind of work on the battery assembly.

I found a script to take down the firewall, and that a series of canbus messages will run the script to enable this debug or development mode (very easy with one of the carmaker's leaked engineering tools), so now we know how to break into the device without taking the car apart to gain access to the connector.

Musk feared that VantagePoint would oust him as CEO, recapitalize Tesla, and emerge as the major owner of the carmaker." From other sources it seems that VantagePoint may have owned less than 10% of the company.