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Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Just like they can push OTA and enable in-car purchases, they can enable certain modes for certain

Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Just like they can push OTA and enable in-car purchases, they can enable certain modes for certain people. I don’t think that there’s a hidden command to do so from the dashboard, but surely they can do it remotely. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a “if user === elon” condition just like on Twitter

mvdtnz 3y ago
Your post is total speculation. I agree with the parent comment, it's disappointing that whatever it happening here is not making it past the NHTSA into the public.
- bandergirl 3y ago
  So is everything around this mode. It came out from a hacker who found it in the code. For a long time people have been altering and delimiting cars, so I don’t think this deserve much news until someone enables it without hacking the car. The original article mentions that it could be enabled via “cheat code” but nothing points towards that, so my hardcoded condition is just as good a speculation. A better article: https://electrek.co/2023/06/22/tesla-autopilot-elon-mode-not-really-called-that/ https://electrek.co/2023/06/22/tesla-autopilot-elon-mode-not...
dee-bee 3y ago
> Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside maybe from remote start. Where are the legislators? Where are the regulatory bodies?
- eclipxe 3y ago
  Because its not a big deal.
- TheNewsIsHere 3y ago
  And it leads to absolutely ridiculous and predictable outcomes. Tesla’s backend for fleet management at least used to be an absolute shit show that barely worked on the best day. Apart from that, remember when (I think it was?) Troy Hunt published an article on how trivial it was to control some in-car features with nothing but a VIN and Internet connection? There are certainly ways to do these things correctly. But until those measures are required by law and are -actually- implemented both consistently and sanely, it’ll be an intermittent bad time. The auto industry can barely get hardware security right, let alone electronic and digital security.

mvdtnz 3y ago

Your post is total speculation. I agree with the parent comment, it's disappointing that whatever it happening here is not making it past the NHTSA into the public.

bandergirl 3y ago
So is everything around this mode. It came out from a hacker who found it in the code. For a long time people have been altering and delimiting cars, so I don’t think this deserve much news until someone enables it without hacking the car. The original article mentions that it could be enabled via “cheat code” but nothing points towards that, so my hardcoded condition is just as good a speculation. A better article: https://electrek.co/2023/06/22/tesla-autopilot-elon-mode-not-really-called-that/ https://electrek.co/2023/06/22/tesla-autopilot-elon-mode-not...

dee-bee 3y ago

> Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside maybe from remote start. Where are the legislators? Where are the regulatory bodies?

eclipxe 3y ago
Because its not a big deal.
TheNewsIsHere 3y ago
And it leads to absolutely ridiculous and predictable outcomes. Tesla’s backend for fleet management at least used to be an absolute shit show that barely worked on the best day. Apart from that, remember when (I think it was?) Troy Hunt published an article on how trivial it was to control some in-car features with nothing but a VIN and Internet connection? There are certainly ways to do these things correctly. But until those measures are required by law and are -actually- implemented both consistently and sanely, it’ll be an intermittent bad time. The auto industry can barely get hardware security right, let alone electronic and digital security.