> Instead, it sounds like Tesla goofed and enabled some features that should never have been enabled, and then clawed them back after the car changed hands seve

> Instead, it sounds like Tesla goofed and enabled some features that should never have been enabled, and then clawed them back after the car changed hands several times (original owner -> auction, auction -> dealer, dealer -> customer). Not that you're arguing for Tesla, as far as I can tell, but this sort of thing doubtless also happens with non-IoT devices, and yet manufacturers of those don't feel that they can come and repossess the parts that they didn't want you to have. (The grocery store, for example, frequently has notices that ads were misprinted, and they won't honour the advertised price; but they can't track me down afterwards and take back 30% of the produce if I got it at the reduced price.) This is not a new problem; it's a new, and bad, solution to a problem that should be the manufacturer's alone.