Electronic hardware is fabulously more complicated than car manufacturing. An order of magnitude so. That is why it has HAD to break itself it standardized modules to be feasible. Almost no company can really design the entire thing end to end anymore (unlike cars which have under a million components)

The government, the road signs, and yes the manufacturer tell you it is unsafe to operate a motor vehicle beyond posted speed limits.

Its a site about car news, and whether they are doing great or terrible things, Tesla is doing NEW things at an often breakneck speed. News covers people who do things, not people who don’t.

A car that lets you speed is also potentially unsafe and also potentially harms others.

Why?

I am not comfortable with people turning off features of my car if they don’t think I am smart enough for them. Once you buy it, its your car. Why is there this rush to protect idiots from themselves? We put a warning label on bleach that its poisonous. If I still drink it you don’t need to redesign the jug to have…

Thank you captain nanny-state. Maybe next we can outlaw motorcyles until we are sure everyone “really understands” to dress for the slide not the ride. Hell maybe just outlaw sports cars because so many people don’t really understand how to drive one before getting one. Lets just let idiots ruin everything for…

He’s an engineering first guy. Make a vastly better product and you don’t need advertising to trick people. It works too, just more expensive.

So its a powerwheels toy?

Well, you are kind of making their point.