A vehicle being able to be remotely disabled is a big red flag all by itself.
A company that will disable your vehicle while it's in operation because they're mad at you is a company that nobody should do business with under any circumstances whatsoever. (I'm assuming the story is true for the sake of argument. I don't know that it is.)
freedomben · 2h ago
Seriously, I've been sounding this alarm for so long and it's (nearly) always dismissed. I want my car to behave like my guitar: Do exactly what I tell it to do. Be an extension of my person!
FireBeyond · 2h ago
This is not the first time Tesla has done it, either. Before the 3 was released, a customer found some references to it in their software and made some posts.
Next thing they know, their vehicle's firmware was forcibly downgraded to a version that had no references, was forcibly version-locked at that firmware version, and had the Ethernet and OBD ports disabled.
impossiblefork · 1h ago
Here in Sweden programming a feature allowing this or participating in the activation of this feature would be a crime called allmänfarlig vårdslöshet. The crime would be regarded as serious, due to the detailed planning, and would lead to everyone involved going to prison for two years.
Why haven't the people who did this been arrested? Surely the US too, has laws against public endagerment?
I'd say something like how this shouldn't be legal (and it might not be, idk I'm neither American nor a lawyer)... but my sympathy is quite limited since you made the conscious decision to buy a damn Tesla.
incomingpain · 6h ago
Hard to read but comply with cease and desist? Failed update shutting of the truck?
Shocking video telling everyone not to buy Tesla.
amarcheschi · 6h ago
The red box in the display says "comply with cease and desist to reactivate" + other comments with the images of the c&d received by op
I had to take a second look as well because the red box isn't clear to read
immibis · 6h ago
Well yeah, if you wanted to make someone crash their car because you didn't like their speech, you wouldn't make the dashboard say "your car is about to crash because we don't like your speech". You'd make it say something like "failed update."
You might not even have a mechanism to push error messages. You might just push a corrupted update package to them.
amarcheschi · 6h ago
It's not clearly readable and you might need to stop the video, but the red box above update failed say it quite loud that it's because they got a c&d and the cybertruck was deactivated
freedomben · 2h ago
I still think that would be an utter bullshit thing to do. Why the hell would you do a software update while the car is in use???
gurumeditations · 3h ago
They could’ve killed multiple people with that, everyone who enabled that needs to be in prison now.
pengaru · 2h ago
That's a clever way to get popular, pathetic that the reality of the state of everything makes it so plausible.
A company that will disable your vehicle while it's in operation because they're mad at you is a company that nobody should do business with under any circumstances whatsoever. (I'm assuming the story is true for the sake of argument. I don't know that it is.)
Next thing they know, their vehicle's firmware was forcibly downgraded to a version that had no references, was forcibly version-locked at that firmware version, and had the Ethernet and OBD ports disabled.
Why haven't the people who did this been arrested? Surely the US too, has laws against public endagerment?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44859807
Shocking video telling everyone not to buy Tesla.
I had to take a second look as well because the red box isn't clear to read
You might not even have a mechanism to push error messages. You might just push a corrupted update package to them.