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I was referring to this video where the car is driving 60mph down the highway, and the MCU stays crashed for over a minute: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UkhwRU

I was referring to this video where the car is driving 60mph down the highway, and the MCU stays crashed for over a minute: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UkhwRUaSCA4 https://www.youtube.com/embed/UkhwRUaSCA4 > Well, it was probably a hard reboot. Which can only be done while stopped and with foot holding the brake down. If this is true, then it seems like it is impossible to (hard) reboot the MCU while driving? So they definitely should pull over. > This is how people form mistaken opinions about Teslas. Lack of personal experience, ignorance, presupposition of facts that do not exist, gullible acceptance of anything you read or hear, and exaggeration of perceived problems to a bizarre level. You seem to be letting your Tesla fanboy/girlism blind you. I'm not "forming an opinion" about Tesla over this event, simply arguing that should this happen to you the safest and best thing to do is pull over. I would do the same thing in a normal (non-Tesla) car should the speedometer or other important part of the dash fail in those.

natch 7y ago
Soft reboot should work. I think leaving it crashed for 60 seconds was up to the discretion of the user. He never tried soft rebooting. Of course not, since it was a demo of the hack. But soft reboot would be my go-to thing here and I would also at the same time start looking for safe places to pull over just in case the soft reboot didn't fix it. But yeah this is an annoying hack if it hits an average driver. I'd say whether it's dangerous or not depends on how the driver responds. Just as you say, if any important part of the dash fails, the actions to take are largely the same as for a regular car, except I'm adding that there is that additional option of the soft reboot, in the meantime, which may fix it completely before a pullover can even happen. If they are not aware of soft reboot, they should just drive safely and pull over to call service to ask what to do. If they don't do this, it's just like anyone in any car driving with something non-functional; the responsibility falls on the driver. >I'm not "forming an opinion" about Tesla OK, fair enough. If not for you, it can stand as a general comment about the nature of comments often seen in discussions about Tesla.

natch 7y ago

Soft reboot should work. I think leaving it crashed for 60 seconds was up to the discretion of the user. He never tried soft rebooting. Of course not, since it was a demo of the hack. But soft reboot would be my go-to thing here and I would also at the same time start looking for safe places to pull over just in case the soft reboot didn't fix it. But yeah this is an annoying hack if it hits an average driver. I'd say whether it's dangerous or not depends on how the driver responds. Just as you say, if any important part of the dash fails, the actions to take are largely the same as for a regular car, except I'm adding that there is that additional option of the soft reboot, in the meantime, which may fix it completely before a pullover can even happen. If they are not aware of soft reboot, they should just drive safely and pull over to call service to ask what to do. If they don't do this, it's just like anyone in any car driving with something non-functional; the responsibility falls on the driver. >I'm not "forming an opinion" about Tesla OK, fair enough. If not for you, it can stand as a general comment about the nature of comments often seen in discussions about Tesla.