It has already happened. There was a case where somebody's new Ferrari straight from a dealer brought to some store to have a baby seat installed. Some sort of

It has already happened. There was a case where somebody's new Ferrari straight from a dealer brought to some store to have a baby seat installed. Some sort of anti-tamper or anti theft system apparently triggered while they were trying to see if any of the baby seats fit (nope!). And this happened down inside a concrete garage, so no signal reception. Ferrari apparently has some means of disabling these interlocks over the air, but well, no reception. A technician gets flown out, but apparently is unable to fix it, so it will need to towed to a dealership to fix. Apparently whatever interlock tripped will try to make the car phone home, and if that fails, it locks down harder than normal such that it can only be fixed with tools found at a dealer. To summarize: Car: I think I'm being stolen. I'll lock down, and call for help. The lines are dead?!?! I really am being stolen. Activate computer self-destruct. Also the technician had to manually release the handbrake to allow it to be moved, since apparently it was locked down enough that doing that the normal way was not possible. I'm as skeptical as you are about the details of the story, but it was posted second hand, and I'm not sure the poster even understood all the details. The most details exist in the comments of the third reddit post. The linked Hacker news discussion was based only on the first, and some of the discussion there occurred before OP had clarified some things. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754662 https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j914fh/dude_comes_straight_from_the_dealership_for_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j914... https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9jim1/update_theyve_flown_a_very_italian_sounding/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9ji... https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qnh3/final_update_and_there_it_goes_boys_a_true_marvel/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qn...