The most interesting thing about self-driving vehicles is that there is a legitimate reason people should never be able to modify the firmware on their vehicles. The risks would be very high.

There is also the entire liability and planed obsolescent issues not being dealt with. Will Tesla support these cars forever? Will 10 year old models still get software updates?

> But not being able to USE your car for some things? That just screams easy headlines and it's a reason I might not get a Tesla in the future.

Its your car. It's Tesla software. You don't own it, just like you don't own any of the other commercial software you use.

I can't really find fault in it; they deserve the lion's share of the revenue (not Uber, Lyft, or you) if you put the vehicle into their shared ridesharing fleet for profit.

You don't have to put it into their fleet though. But if you do, them the terms.

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and every other huge company are huge because of their monopolies. Tesla would be making a massive mistake to not start walling in their garden.