> Imagine if you will, a world where you can reconfigure your firmware, load it, test it on your property, fire off a copy to a regulator to get plugged into a

> Imagine if you will, a world where you can reconfigure your firmware, load it, test it on your property, fire off a copy to a regulator to get plugged into a test bed and put through the paces, and get a result back with an adjusted fee to reflect the difference in performance against standards for those changes. You can if you would pay $10m to cover all the testing costs just to make a one line change to the firmware so braking works slightly more smoothly for you. The reason that things are centralized like this way is because it's more efficient to make a single car model safe for a million people rather than test a million different versions of cars programmed by different people. In a world without all that corporate surveillance, where everyone works on his own, a bicycle is as much as you can expect to get.