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It's the other way around: they phone home so that they can be bricked, or at the very least have important features disabled at Tesla's whim. What you're sugg
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
It's the other way around: they phone home so that they can be bricked, or at the very least have important features disabled at Tesla's whim.
What you're suggesting can't work because there isn't cell reception everywhere, but of course that hasn't stopped car rental companies (I think) implementing exactly that with the predictable result of people being stranded in remote locations.
The real danger is that someone from Tesla is here reading your comment and putting it on the to do list.
- jjoonathan 3y agoif (days_since_last_phone_home>30) brick(); What I'm really asking is if you are allowed to block the phone home process. Or, in superlative language that I suspect would resonate more with Tesla fans, "in the event of an apocalypse does your Tesla automatically brick itself or does it continue to function?"
- nxpnsv 3y agoI guess your tesla will be the least of your problems in the event of an apocalypse
- hoseja 3y agoLow maintenance vehicle not dependent on oil?
- freerobby 3y agoThere's lots of research here in the Tesla hacker community. The car continues to function. The easiest (not trivial, but easiest) way to test it yourself is to remove the SIM and disable wifi -- the non-network features of the car continue to work indefinitely. There are even some third parties who support early Tesla vehicles, on stock firmwares, in part by fully blocking comms with Tesla.