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Professional thieves are stealing expensive luxury cars with sophisticated theft protection like that all the time. It's only a matter of time until they updat
by chmod775 6y ago
Professional thieves are stealing expensive luxury cars with sophisticated theft protection like that all the time.
It's only a matter of time until they update their tools and also go after Teslas.
> for when the car phones home
It won't. You are seriously underestimating these gangs.
About the only defense is some aftermarket theft protection/tracking that they don't expect.
Sometimes some of their middlemen shops/drivers get caught that way.
- slovette 6y agoYour probably right, but I’d love to see the data on the successful theft rate of a Tesla car.
- dawnerd 6y agoI saw some numbers a while back and it's very, very low. The real theft ends up being people stealing the mirrors since those go for some $$ on ebay and the like. I think would-be car-jackers know stealing a Tesla is pointless. Sure, they could stick it into a shipping container.... but then what? All of the electronics are signed and can be traced, the car as gps and will phone home the moment it leaves the container. Too much work for too little reward.
- mulmen 6y ago> The real theft ends up being people stealing the mirrors since those go for some $$ on ebay and the like. I had the battery stolen out of my car. Luckily there was a used battery shop just down the street that had just what I needed in stock.
- dawnerd 6y agoWe're talking the 12v battery right? Would be pretty impressive if they lifted the car up and got the high voltage pack out.
- mulmen 6y agoYes, regular starter battery.
- throwaway69123 6y agoWhat luck!
- toomanybeersies 6y agoYou probably just bought your stolen battery straight back...
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