The premise here is that they are completely vertically oriented. A flatly-incorrect premise, but one apparently held by the Stans and Culti

Yeah, “the yellow goo” problem.

Oh. Yeah. Full Self Drive Coast to Coast. In 2015.

Exactly. It’s easy to see who does this for a living in real companies and who’s had too much of the Tesla Kool-Aid.

Well, you’re citing the example that proves the point... Intel spent 9-figure sums to code around, simulate, test and validate a single flaw in the FPU. It took them many months.

Love Tom’ pick. And USUALLY like Mercedes pick... but...

It’s a dialogue about “QA processes and managing running changes” in a modern automotive manufacturer.

Read the sub-REDDIT about the scripts that provision and update cars...

people die sometimes due to the wrong running changes without proper re-qual and validation.

The Home Depot wood trim heat exchanger mounts are going to have to disagree there, Elon.

My two decades of experience in mission critical embedded design, with dozens of granted patents in related art?

Anything safety related probably has more scrutiny, yes

It is a risk factor— given the history of Wild West decisions like Home Depot trim heat exchanger mounts, the eMMC fiasco, the build quality faults that caused two recalls today??

Home Depot wood trim... under the bonnet

How much shock, vibration and environmental testing do you think the Home Depot molding got before it was used as a structural member in production cars?

Everybody should read the sub-REDDIT written by the ex-Tesla software developers... it's a complete house of cards. 

I assure you that the interior of any car gets quite hot in Arizona in August... that’s where the MCU, stack, screens and drivers all live.

I'd kind of like to see their Version Control matrix... but I think my head would explode. One of these times they are gonna brick 500k cars. 

Tesla doesn’t own a Silicon Fab house, so both premises don’t hold up to scrutiny.

After they hit all the device drivers, failed to test those routines with a regression battery, and called it a day...