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Letting the car automatically phone home to the manufacturer worries me. Collecting anonymous stats about the car's health and battery condition will help them
by zxcvgm 13y ago
Letting the car automatically phone home to the manufacturer worries me. Collecting anonymous stats about the car's health and battery condition will help them design better vehicles and firmware in future, so that's okay. But isn't knowing the location of each and every Tesla vehicle, and who they belong to some kind of privacy risk? Is law enforcement able to subpoena the manufacturer to release all previously recorded locations of an individual and use that as evidence against him?
The ability to remotely unlock the car opens up a whole new can of worms. Could someone potentially steal a car (like how they steal domains and twitter handles) through social engineering? Or perhaps by stealing the auth token on the user's mobile device? If you don't continue paying the loan for your car, could they refuse to unlock the vehicle remotely?
- toomuchtodo 13y ago> The ability to remotely unlock the car opens up a whole new can of worms. Could someone potentially steal a car (like how they steal domains and twitter handles) through social engineering? Or perhaps by stealing the auth token on the user's mobile device? If you don't continue paying the loan for your car, could they refuse to unlock the vehicle remotely? You know GM's OnStar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar] has existed since 1995, and allows not only for vehicle tracking, but the remote shutdown of the vehicle (typically used in the event of theft), correct?
- eurleif 13y agoAnd cars that won't start if you don't pay your loan are already a thing: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/17/aa.bills.shut.engine.down/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/17/aa.bills....