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> The app should not be the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson, editor of The Car Expert website, told the BBC. Why did they pick a headline tha
by lol768 5y ago
> The app should not be the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson, editor of The Car Expert website, told the BBC.
Why did they pick a headline that suggested the cars were completely unusable? Just another example of the BBC's poor tech journalism to be honest.
I assume there is a proper manual key-based unlock that would've enabled Tesla owners to use their cars.
> Technology makes things convenient, but relies on a server working 100% of the time.
Some tech does, but that's far from a universal design element intrinsic to all things "technology". It's a trade-off between convenience and reliability/security.
- JoBrad 5y agoDid they edit the article after you posted this comment? Even if they did, I can see how the tone of “should not be” (which you can’t really hear in text, of course) would mean something different than the way you understood it. This is how that sentence appears to me: > The app is not the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson, editor of The Car Expert website, told the BBC.
- dlivingston 5y agoYes, absurd. The app “starts” the car via P2P Bluetooth, not over some HTTPS push notification. If you want to remotely set the AC or remotely view the Sentry Mode cameras, then that’s server-based and did not work last night.