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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests. For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge.

This means that your Tesla is designed to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics. For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away:
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Some of the ways that your Tesla can be wirelessly downgraded (like disabling your battery) are disclosed at the time of purchase. Others (like locking you out and summoning a repo man) are secret. But whether disclosed or secret, both kinds of downgrade depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. This is weird enough when we're talking about a set-top box that won't let you record a TV show – but when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying."

pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/mus

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs (15 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #67: The first electric car was invented before the first gasoline-driven car. Also, isn't it strange how at first, only the very rich drove cars as an expensive hobby while everyone else rode horses, but now the rich ride horses as an expensive hobby while everyone else drives cars? 🤔
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#electriccars #evs #environment #pollution #horses #history #cars #webcomic #comic #cartoon #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

The first electric car was invented before the first gasoline-powered car. Also, the first petrol-driven cars were seen as cleaner and environmentally friendly, because they offered an alternative to horses that left the streets splattered with piles of horse poop everywhere you looked.
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