Linux in mixed-criticality systems

Well, those hopes may be misplaced. Tesla, innovative though it is, has a well-deserved reputation of being extremely proprietary. There are plenty of stories flying around about the difficulties of reverse engineering what its cars do internally, etc.

Heck, recently they announced that they will stop working with third-party body shops and that they want all such repairs to be handled in-house. Compared to Tesla, traditional car manufacturers are a model of openness...