Unlikely. There is simply 0 reason to be looking at it while driving. You can't play games on it, all the common settings are on the wheel. Looking at the positioning of the wheels, the guy was most likely making a turn and the instantaneous response of the car was quicker then he imagined.

Because you see all that space in between seats? The American way is sticking as many people into as little space as possible, the above solutions where empty space exists between seats is unamerican. And look at all that legroom! Since when are we allowed legroom?!?!

Yup, I know a person who bought a used Jaguar on the cheap. They just wanted a luxury brand car. The luxury branding deceives people on the actual value but they don't realize luxury cars lose value quicker too. An old luxury car is worth less than a few year old new non-luxury car.

Why not build wireless charging into the road while you are at it.

Realistically speaking, battery swap is not the way to go and hydrogen is a joke.

Not true at all, if you look what part was broken, it was all the way back where the motor was. The front seats, the console, the lcd were all intact with no damage (until the fire).

The guy was found outside the car on the concrete with a big hole in the front window of the car. So they are assuming he is the driver.

Innocent until proven guilty?

The car is as safe as it could be, the concrete once he left the car through the window, not so much.

We get that, but you have to remember, he stole a car, went over 100mph in the middle of a urban city. How many INNOCENT sons/daughters did he almost kill? Would you be the one explaining to them if people would have died why they are dead?

The guy died though due to his own stupidity, and I tell this to everyone WEAR…

He did get a trial, he was trialed by the laws of physics.

His income at Tesla Motors is 1$ per year. Well more accurately, it is minimum wage and then he returns all but 1$

It is missing a manual transmission, now sure it does not have a transmission, but you can add a stick with Bluetooth connects to the car and emulates a manual transmission. And when not being used it can let you use it as a joystick to play car games on the 17" screen.

While Musk was the co-founder of paypal and was the largest shareholder, he had little influence there. Paypal was pretty much hijacked from him. When he went on vacation, the Paypal mafia removed him as ceo.

Well that technically won't disqualify them legally, especially since this will be in Beijing outside of US laws. Though side note, Tesla is not the one giving the 10k. The contest is being given by a 3rd party.

This is the internet, you don't know when someone is being serious or not because you'd be surprised what people say seriously. Hence why there is things like "jk" and "/s"

No, cause that guy most likely stole a key. And generally these kind of things are not about the money but reputation for your security company.

The 10k bounty is for a remote hack. So far none have been found.

I can think of a few things that can easily be done.

1) Carbon fiber/Magnesium chassis over aluminum

2) Make the car into a roadster

3) Add front motors and batteries to power the front motor

I would argue the opposite. When you think of souls you think giving off electromagnetic aka electricity. When was the last time souls gave off combustion? Demons?

You probably want to wait for Tesla's next roadster (hopefully 2018?). A full sized sedan while can race a track is not generally ideal for that.