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And BTW your claim about "every teardown" is wrong. You mean "Every teardown by one Randy Munrone". Ingineerix, Jack Rickard, and Evannex disagree.,

You mean Sandy Munro? You know those guys have chops, right? They're not amateurs. Also, I don't know if you took the time to actually watch the entire interview, but he gave Tesla credit for numerous things that he thought they did extremely well — better, in fact, than literally anyone else. The electronics leap immediately to mind.

Besides that though, there are plenty of other media references as well, not to mention the owners complaining all over the official forums. Please don't pretend like Tesla isn't having quality control problems. They absolutely are, and there's no credibly denying it. When you get in to this kind of money, it's not cute to have problems like that. It's not an especially huge amount of money to spend for a product that does what it does, but it is enough money where it's disappointing for it to have that kind of flaw. If we didn't care about style, we'd all drive identical-looking vehicles which were based on the intersection of crash safety and aerodynamics.

It would be less embarrassing if this were Tesla's first car, but it isn't...

I find it interesting that this project will make use of Red Hat 6.8 to complete the COTS picture.
For other needs, the software suite has to show a high level of reliability as well. Think along the lines of DO-178* (safety/mission critical) requirements
Witness efforts with QuickSAT/XEN ( https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearc... ) and the work from Victor with GalacticSky ( http://www.galacticsky.net/ )

I did some digging on the interwebs looking for the real tech behind Magic Leap, surprisingly, I found that they actually do have the key people who invented core pieces of technology, when put together results in a high resolution high frame rare light field display, in other words, digital holography movies where your eye or any camera can actually focus on the near and far objects in a display.

Start by googling the keywords "scanning fiber technology", follow the trail of clues from there and you will quickly realize the tech they have is real and it works. I'll just list a few clues below:
* Scanning Fiber Endoscope, Eric Seibel, Ph.D. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    But this is a camera not a display! Yes, the scanning fiber tech works both ways, you can put light sensors or light sources on the other end
* Eric Seibel - Research Professor at University of Washington's Department of Bioengineering, http://www.me.washington.edu/r...
    Check out his selected publications on "New displays are a fiber scanned microdisplay and a true 3D display that mimics the natural conditions of depth perception by adding both accommodative cues as well as stereographic cues." first author is Schowengerdt, B.T. who now works for Magic Leap.
* True 3D Displays, https://depts.washington.edu/h...
* 3D Displays using Scanning Laser Projection. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 2012, http://imgur.com/a/IRZK7
* Ultra-High Resolution Scanning Fiber Display for HMDs, DoD Air Force grant, 2013, to Brian Schowengerdt, Magic Leap, https://www.sbir.gov/content/u...

it doesn't support democratic participation and shoulders aside the Main Street businessman in favor of specialized Big Businesses

Oh come on, https://www.sbir.gov/ is there for you. Lots of start-ups take advantage of SBIRs. Big businesses are actually banned because the government wants to support start-ups.

You do kind of need to specialize. If you want to do both government and non-government, put a pair of businesses under a holding company. This just keeps the accounting separate.

Urrm, yeah. Like Cold Fusion, which is used in the Über-Secret F-1111. The F-22 is just a decoy that distracts people when they perform F-1111 operations out of Area-Fuck-One. Cold Fusion actually works and all the de-bunkers are paid by CIA. Indeedzz !

What is with the defensive attitude? Do you just enjoy the idea of staying dumb or are you getting paid for posting them? ;)

The room temperature super conductor is already being used by the gov for advanced tech.

One of the biggest reason these tech isn't available to the public is because they help objects stay invisible from radars, the materials are too effective at absorbing/transfering incoming energy.

Have fun being a sheep.

Qu Tubes for High Temperature Heat Rejection

In our proposed effort, we intend to perform high temperature (100-200 Deg C) characterization of an ultra-advanced heat pipe to determine feasibility of using it in high temperature space radiators. In previous work, we have shown that the so-called "Qu Tube" achieves exceptionally high thermal transport rates at lower temperatures. BENEFIT: Our innovation will significantly reduce the size of radiators used on spacecraft and satellites, thereby reducing their mass and their cost. It can also be applied in many industrial heat exchanger designs.

"Universal laws" have been broken before and they will be broken again.

If you're so sure human already knows everything then explain why this room temperature superconductor invented by another Chinese is breaking multiple laws of thermal dynamics.

Preliminary Results of an Experimental Investigation of the Qu Superconducting Heat Pipe - NASA Grant NCC 8-200

Preliminary results of Qu Tube heat pipes we are testing show high thermal conductivity, with lower bounds as determined by the fin equation of the order of 10,000 to perhaps 30,000 times that of copper (e.g., 339 wlm-K).

Qu Tubes for High Temperature Heat Rejection

In our proposed effort, we intend to perform high temperature (100-200 Deg C) characterization of an ultra-advanced heat pipe to determine feasibility of using it in high temperature space radiators. In previous work, we have shown that the so-called "Qu Tube" achieves exceptionally high thermal transport rates at lower temperatures. BENEFIT: Our innovation will significantly reduce the size of radiators used on spacecraft and satellites, thereby reducing their mass and their cost. It can also be applied in many industrial heat exachanger designs.

Super conductors/super fluids have been breaking known "universal laws" left right and center. Think outside the box.

You are exaggerating.

First of all, US government solicitations can be vague or specific. When they are vague, it is intentional in order to encourage a wide variety of proposals. Have a look at: http://www.sbir.gov/solicitations

Now here is where you are very wrong. Bids and proposals are anything but "a very vague description of a project and associated budget". Maybe years ago, in some areas of the US Government this was true. Maybe its still true in a handful of areas. But right the majority of DoD proposals are very specific. I've composed, won and lost SBIR proposals. Vague SBIR proposals are rarely awarded.

As with x-ray lensing, the question was of feasibility for certain applications.

The government funds lots of research. What about SBIRs?

http://www.sbir.gov/

The small company I work for goes through the http://www.sbir.gov/ program. It includes grant solicitations from DOD, NIH, and others. It can be pretty cutthroat but we've been doing okay funding R&D activities with it for almost 10 years.