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If your car gets stolen can you call Tesla and have them shut it down?

by shyn3 6y ago

baggachipz 6y ago
Yes. Or, even better, I can do it myself via the app or website.
- joijoiwejrr 6y ago
  What happens if the person is driving at high speed when the signal comes to shut the car down? Does it only take effect when they park? Do they get a warning before parking that the car will shut down when they do?
  - DennisP 6y ago
    I don't know the answer but with Autopilot or FSD it's possible that the car could safely slow down and park itself.
    - tjoff 6y ago
      No, it can not safely do that.
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  - 14 6y ago
    The same thing that happens to an gas car your car would lose power and you would roll to a stop. This actually happened to me on my motorcycle I was going high speed on a windy road and just had passed 2 cars and moved in front of them and my engine died. It’s not fun but shutting the car off at any moment should be no different then any car breaking down.
    - Cthulhu_ 6y ago
      It happens, I mean I've stupidly run out of fuel on the highway before. I think this is something that should be practiced at least once while taking driving lessons (like how you practice emergency braking and evasion on a motorbike)
- bdamm 6y ago
  Tesla (at least M3s) cannot be remotely disabled when driving. But the owner can make life seriously problematic for the thieves; the car' location is tracked down to the meter, the horn and windows and sometimes music can be remotely controlled, along with the climate controls. So the thieves will have a very unpleasant ride culminating in a police event if they choose to continue. Disabling the remote access from inside the car requires authentication.
  - Cthulhu_ 6y ago
    I'm sure professional thieves would know how to disable the GPS tracker quick enough. I had a colleague of mine whose BMW was broken into at night. He woke up to police in front of his house (called by BMW's own alert system), there's an atmospheric pressure sensor inside the car and everything. No sign of the thieves, so he booked an appointment to have the window fixed and didn't think much of it. But then he realized the side panel (in the door column? the column between the front and rear doors) was tweaked over a bit. The thieves had gone in and cut the cable tree going to the roof of the car, which contains amongst other things the antenna and connection to BMW's alert service. Their plan was to come in the one night, disappear, hope the victim didn't notice that (and the garage doesn't check for it), and come in to steal it for real the next day, or maybe even the same night after the police has gone again.
    - bdamm 6y ago
      That's a remarkable amount of work to steal the car. Probably they tried to steal it right then and there, thieves don't like to return to a crime scene. For Tesla, if they really want they could pry open the frunk and remove the 12V power from the low-voltage battery, then winch the car onto a flatbed. That would disable the GPS tracking and allow access to make money parting out the car. Although not the motors, which are locked to the VCSEC and the owner's configured keys, and bypassing that is still an open problem AFAIK.
PopeDotNinja 6y ago
A week ago I learned how hard it is to sell a used iPhone. A factory reset isn’t enough. I got $500 cash from some kid, he contacted me saying he couldn’t log in, and I then spent hours googling “how to sell used iPhone” and communicating via google translate what he was seeing. That was fun. It turned out I needed to wipe the data using iCloud and then remove the device from my account. I wonder how involved selling a used Tesla will become.
- sgerenser 6y ago
  The only thing you need to do before selling an iPhone (or iPad) is go into Settings->General->Reset->Erase All Contents and Settings. This will prompt you for your iCloud password and remove the iCloud lock and wipe the device. Source: sold at least a dozen iPhones and iPads since iCloud lock has been a thing.
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If your car gets stolen can you call Tesla and have them shut it down?

by shyn3 6y ago

If your car gets stolen can you call Tesla and have them shut it down?

baggachipz 6y ago

Yes. Or, even better, I can do it myself via the app or website.

joijoiwejrr 6y ago
What happens if the person is driving at high speed when the signal comes to shut the car down? Does it only take effect when they park? Do they get a warning before parking that the car will shut down when they do?
- DennisP 6y ago
  I don't know the answer but with Autopilot or FSD it's possible that the car could safely slow down and park itself.
  - tjoff 6y ago
    No, it can not safely do that.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- 14 6y ago
  The same thing that happens to an gas car your car would lose power and you would roll to a stop. This actually happened to me on my motorcycle I was going high speed on a windy road and just had passed 2 cars and moved in front of them and my engine died. It’s not fun but shutting the car off at any moment should be no different then any car breaking down.
  - Cthulhu_ 6y ago
    It happens, I mean I've stupidly run out of fuel on the highway before. I think this is something that should be practiced at least once while taking driving lessons (like how you practice emergency braking and evasion on a motorbike)
bdamm 6y ago
Tesla (at least M3s) cannot be remotely disabled when driving. But the owner can make life seriously problematic for the thieves; the car' location is tracked down to the meter, the horn and windows and sometimes music can be remotely controlled, along with the climate controls. So the thieves will have a very unpleasant ride culminating in a police event if they choose to continue. Disabling the remote access from inside the car requires authentication.
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  I'm sure professional thieves would know how to disable the GPS tracker quick enough. I had a colleague of mine whose BMW was broken into at night. He woke up to police in front of his house (called by BMW's own alert system), there's an atmospheric pressure sensor inside the car and everything. No sign of the thieves, so he booked an appointment to have the window fixed and didn't think much of it. But then he realized the side panel (in the door column? the column between the front and rear doors) was tweaked over a bit. The thieves had gone in and cut the cable tree going to the roof of the car, which contains amongst other things the antenna and connection to BMW's alert service. Their plan was to come in the one night, disappear, hope the victim didn't notice that (and the garage doesn't check for it), and come in to steal it for real the next day, or maybe even the same night after the police has gone again.
  - bdamm 6y ago
    That's a remarkable amount of work to steal the car. Probably they tried to steal it right then and there, thieves don't like to return to a crime scene. For Tesla, if they really want they could pry open the frunk and remove the 12V power from the low-voltage battery, then winch the car onto a flatbed. That would disable the GPS tracking and allow access to make money parting out the car. Although not the motors, which are locked to the VCSEC and the owner's configured keys, and bypassing that is still an open problem AFAIK.

PopeDotNinja 6y ago

A week ago I learned how hard it is to sell a used iPhone. A factory reset isn’t enough. I got $500 cash from some kid, he contacted me saying he couldn’t log in, and I then spent hours googling “how to sell used iPhone” and communicating via google translate what he was seeing. That was fun. It turned out I needed to wipe the data using iCloud and then remove the device from my account. I wonder how involved selling a used Tesla will become.

sgerenser 6y ago
The only thing you need to do before selling an iPhone (or iPad) is go into Settings->General->Reset->Erase All Contents and Settings. This will prompt you for your iCloud password and remove the iCloud lock and wipe the device. Source: sold at least a dozen iPhones and iPads since iCloud lock has been a thing.

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