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I'd like to know what he did that disabled Tesla updates. I might actually start to develop some interest in owning a Tesla, if there were some procedure I coul
by marssaxman 9y ago
I'd like to know what he did that disabled Tesla updates. I might actually start to develop some interest in owning a Tesla, if there were some procedure I could follow to disable all the remote backdoors Tesla has left embedded in their rolling computers.
- greglindahl 9y agoDo you have a plan for installing safety-critical updates?
- marssaxman 9y agoIf the firmware in that car is so fragile that any such thing as a truly safety-critical update could still reasonably exist after they've been out on the road this many years, then I definitely don't want to drive one, and I'd prefer not to share the road with them either. On the other hand, if there actually were some epidemic of Tesla crashes due to faulty firmware, the intense media scrutiny they've experienced would almost certainly have turned it up by now; so I'm willing to believe that any updates they'd be trying to push would not, in fact, be safety-critical.
- greglindahl 9y agoTesla has made a couple of things public which were safety critical updates, such as this one: http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/tesla-ota-airbag-fix/ http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/tesla-ota-airbag-fix/ which also refers to an earlier incident where they made charging at home more tentative to avoid faulty plugs causing fires.
- marssaxman 9y agoThanks for the link. Ok, that's pretty clear, no Tesla for me.
- namlem 9y agoIirc they disable updates for all cars when they're junked, so they would have been disabled by the time he got it.
- will_hughes 9y agoYou can pull the SIM in the car to disable access.