Why you don?t want your electric car to be open source

“The mainstream electric car needs to support the closed, magic
? it just works! ? model. Why? First off, there?s little room for
beta software mistakes in the automotive transportation world. An
electric car that shuts down or freezes up because of half-baked
software is the equivalent of a lawsuit or a PR nightmare.

“Electric car startup Fisker Automotive (which is not open
source at all) has struggled in recent months partly because of
software glitches, leading to some of its early adopter customers
venting online, and a variety of negative press. The equivalent of
Google launching a beta project onto the web, and the ecosystem of
developers playing with and perfecting the tool, doesn?t really
work for a mainstream car.”

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