The “transparent” laboratory-on-wheels used by Porsche is quite unique the world over and used by Porsche’s engineers for the ongoing development of safe and reliable electronic systems.

In the transparent hope of stirring up a publicity-grabbing fuss, it gave the book a one-word title that happens to be the most odious racial slur in the English language.

It has always been an IT dream: as many computer operations as possible need to be transparent. Since the eighties, the word (in a similar way to “paradigm shift”) has been bandied about and used ...