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My Tesla requires a pin to drive like a phone

• jakobegger 8y ago
  That was rolled out in a recent update, right? I think the over-the-air updates is one of the big advantages that Tesla has right now. They can respond quickly to critical vulnerabilities like that. I wonder how fast other car manufacturers are going to catch up? Volvo recently announced that they are working on an Android based system, but it's not going to be rolled out before 2020.
  • tqkxzugoaupvwqr 8y ago
    I dread the day when cars update over night. Drivers become testers, and anyone participating in traffic (aka everyone) has to fear a minor point release introduces a bug that might kill them.
  • makomk 8y ago
    Yes, it was rolled out in a recent update - mainly in response to security researchers discovering they were using weak 40-bit crypto that had been broken back in 2005 that meant an attacker could just outright clone their fobs. They couldn't fix that in a software update so they stuck a PIN on as a patch.
    • samstave 8y ago
      Have there been any cases where a Tesla was under repossession and as such the delinquent owner was simply locked out of the car? Or maybe where the Tesla auto drives itself to the nearest repo-man?
  • sn41 8y ago
    I kind of think OTA updates are a double-edged sword. It could also introduce partially tested software, or malicious code.
• starbeast 8y ago
  How do you get it to not drive like a phone?