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Exactly a set of contacts is much more efficient. Only downside is you'd need to keep it clean, remove snow and whatever else. Inside a garage it would be perfect though

I would bet almost all ICE cars. Media loves being hard on new tech though. A Tesla involved in an accident practically makes national news.

Seems like a lot of work seeing as you get NFC tags for around a dollar each, or less than half of that if you buy like 50 or something. You can write to them using currently available android apps so as long as Tesla is accepting any unique identifier (pretty sure they are) you'll be able to...

That problem has been solved since the mid 90s. You just use an infrared camera. Smartphones are very much space limited which is why different manufacturers come up with different solutions without having to add otherwise unnecessary hardware, a vehicle on the other hand has ,in comparison...

You can always get an RFID chip implanted in your hand. Some piercing places will do it, takes 5 minutes, costs $80-100. Maybe too extreme for most people.

Why not Cylon Toaster

With a complete drive by wire system there's really no way to have it work with no power whatsoever. Aircraft with fly by wire systems have either full backup/parallel systems, or partial failure states (1 instead of 2 control surfaces move for example). I'm sure if they end up putting this...

Pretty much every vehicle will depreciate in value the second you take possession of it. Tesla is no exception. For example I purchased a lease returned vehicle which was only around 8 months old, it was roughly 55% of the new price of an identical vehicle. Teslas as far as I can tell keep their...

It would be interesting if they lined the interior of their service vehicles with the test steel, see how beat up it gets.

Currently in the US and Canada (the main markets for CT) The yoke from the prototype is not legal for production vehicles. It will change, I wouldn't even worry about it until they show off the production version.