Tesla has liability clauses about the life of people and if they trust linux then any other serious project can do so. BTW why just the kernel? It's ad-hoc. If

Tesla has liability clauses about the life of people and if they trust linux then any other serious project can do so. BTW why just the kernel? It's ad-hoc. If your critical software project crash because of any open source user space library such as e.g .NET core, it's no different.