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Rmeinds me of these two tweets by Elon Musk on the Cybertruck explosion at a Trump hotel: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874579547452269054 https://x.com/elonm

by chvid 2y ago

Rmeinds me of these two tweets by Elon Musk on the Cybertruck explosion at a Trump hotel: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874579547452269054 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874579547452269054 We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874558969802547611 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874558969802547611 The whole Tesla senior team is investigating this matter right now. Will post more information as soon as we learn anything. We’ve never seen anything like this. --- It is obvious that car companies have a lot of access to the modern "highly connected" cars they are making. And perhaps also more than what they say officially and are sharing with authorities under normal circumstances.

agilob 2y ago
I like the wording here: >rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. Because as we know Teslas and Cybertrucks don't randomly self-ignite https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-third-documented-tesla-cybertruck-fire-in-less-than-a-month-raises-questions-239065.html https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-third-documented-tesl...
- chvid 2y ago
  I thought the line: "All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion." was more telling.
  - seb1204 2y ago
    Is this a technical term or just bla bla?
    - agilob 2y ago
      It's quite generic, because his target audience is what it is, but the sentence means the CT metrics were ok and no fault was visible in state reported to the engineers.
      - chvid 2y ago
        It also hints at realtime communications and extensive logs between the car and teslas servers.
Avshalom 2y ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-sh...
agilob 2y ago
>a lot of access to the modern "highly connected" cars they are making The systems for this are super complex, we (software engineers) build absolutely huge and complex systems for everything. Lots of functionality is often forgotten and just lives as an old website IE6-compatible somewhere. And honestly, we have no idea what's there, but millions of SEs over the last 30 years had to build lots of thing, right? One such example that always interests me was 2013 - when PM of Cyprus decided to claim 10% of money on every bank account people had. https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30588134.html https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30588134.html Consider that that functionality had to be somewhere centralised with a standardised API, available to the PR and his team, supported by every bank in Cyprus and regularly tested. Your PM must also have such tools available, and more. Knowledge about such tools must be protected and available to only a handful of people.

by chvid 2y ago

agilob 2y ago

I like the wording here: >rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. Because as we know Teslas and Cybertrucks don't randomly self-ignite https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-third-documented-tesla-cybertruck-fire-in-less-than-a-month-raises-questions-239065.html https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-third-documented-tesl...

chvid 2y ago
I thought the line: "All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion." was more telling.
- seb1204 2y ago
  Is this a technical term or just bla bla?
  - agilob 2y ago
    It's quite generic, because his target audience is what it is, but the sentence means the CT metrics were ok and no fault was visible in state reported to the engineers.
    - chvid 2y ago
      It also hints at realtime communications and extensive logs between the car and teslas servers.

Avshalom 2y ago

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-sh...

agilob 2y ago

>a lot of access to the modern "highly connected" cars they are making The systems for this are super complex, we (software engineers) build absolutely huge and complex systems for everything. Lots of functionality is often forgotten and just lives as an old website IE6-compatible somewhere. And honestly, we have no idea what's there, but millions of SEs over the last 30 years had to build lots of thing, right? One such example that always interests me was 2013 - when PM of Cyprus decided to claim 10% of money on every bank account people had. https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30588134.html https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30588134.html Consider that that functionality had to be somewhere centralised with a standardised API, available to the PR and his team, supported by every bank in Cyprus and regularly tested. Your PM must also have such tools available, and more. Knowledge about such tools must be protected and available to only a handful of people.