I thought the idea of TS is that it strongly types everything so that the JS interpreter doesn't waste all of its time trying to figure out the best way to store a variable in RAM.
I have one. I installed Rockbox on it so it can be used like a USB drive. I have no idea if my car will talk to it over the iPod Accessory Protocol. I never tried.
I would argue that it adds a new failure point, and a catastrophic one at that.
Yes, many hunans don't monitor their oil properly. I've seen some destroy engines because they thought the low oil light could be ignored for a week.
Even if you still had the dipstick, owners would become reliant on the sensor and grenade the engine when it gets it wrong. Remember how Teslas had hoods that flew open while driving? The problem wasn't the latch. The problem was owners relying on a crappy sensor.
It's China. When I worked in the air quality monitoring industry, we had to develop mechanisms to detect when someone had stuffed a rag in front of the air sensor... because of events that only occurred in China.
RyanAir won't let up with these constant attacks on Lance Stroll.