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Sooner or later, some city is going to be held for ransom by a group that has disabled (or hijacked) all of the Teslas in it. "Give us a king's ransom or your
by rossdavidh 3y ago
Sooner or later, some city is going to be held for ransom by a group that has disabled (or hijacked) all of the Teslas in it. "Give us a king's ransom or your roads will be clogged with immovable cars, and thus unusable, for weeks". Right now, there are not enough software-hijackable cars on the road for this to work, but that is changing. Once you have a critical mass of perhaps even just 5% of the cars, you can bring all traffic to a halt until your demands are met.
- balls187 3y agoCurious, why do that, and not say attack the power grid?
- rossdavidh 3y agoWell, that may happen too, but you don't want to impair the victim city's ability to pay the ransom. But, I'm afraid, we'll just have to see which happens first.
- Swenrekcah 3y agoI do agree with the sentiment, but in this particular example if I were the local government I’d endure the pain for the 24-36 hours it’d take to get the inflicted vehicles gathered up and then simply ban them from driving until the manufacturer fixes the issue. If I didn’t have the legal authority to do it I’d probably still do it and rather pay the damages than the ransom.
- Tangurena2 3y agoSomething close happened with a used-car dealership where every car got a remote immobilizer added in order to make repossession easier. One ex-employee logged into the system and locked up every car, including cars that were paid off or had been sold to unsuspecting customers. https://www.theregister.com/2010/03/18/repo_man_hack/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/03/18/repo_man_hack/