Beyond the AutoPilot system proving very much a feature in testing, the Tesla Model S has also had reliability issues highlighted in a report by US consumer testing outfit Consumer Reports, which ranked it below average.
That once-celebrated companies like the blood testing outfit Theranos, and the wireless charging company uBeam, are seemingly fighting for their lives raises plenty of questions, too.
The iPhone 8 Plus had a short reign at camera testing outfit DxOMark as "the best smartphone camera we've ever tested" — the Galaxy Note 8 tied it after only a few weeks.
DxOMark, the testing outfit many look to for fair evaluations of cameras from DSLRs to phones, gave Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 a 94, tying the iPhone and in some ways exceeding it.
But the real centrepiece for this year's testing outfit is a mass spectrometer, which can find even the smallest grains of adulterants.
They paid food-testing outfits $250,000, starting out with corn, wheat, potatoes and grapes and ending up with soy, tempered with slight amounts of other grains.
Three months ago we detailed Chief Executive Loring Knoblauch's tough quest to turn around Underwriters Laboratories, the 110-year-old product-testing outfit known for its tiny UL logo.
Just above her, in the tall and narrow second-story window of a flatiron-style building, another woman danced in front of a mirror, testing her outfit for the evening.
Valiant put him on a sixty-metre test track outfitted with a force plate and had him run barefoot.
The study was conducted with two test vehicles outfitted with Global Positioning System devices, which rely on satellite signals to track location.
A touch of Italy never hurts: the car I tested was outfitted with $2,500 worth of Poltrona Frau leather on its upper doors, instrument panel and center console.
