The privilege is kept to the masters at the mothership. As a security researcher you can register your car and get an SSH certificate (bound to your VIN) to acc

The privilege is kept to the masters at the mothership. As a security researcher you can register your car and get an SSH certificate (bound to your VIN) to access your car as root. On top of that, root won't give you _a lot of access_ to the car AFAIK. Some specific features are gated under some specific operations that require a sequence to unlock the gateway. If you also add to the mix the secure boot, it might be hard to do persistent harm other than what the infotainment usually does - you can't flash the autopilot system nor you can interfere with the basic driving functions (?). I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.