I played Cyberpunk 2077 and Hitman: World of Assassinations. In Cyberpunk 2077 one hack in the game is to literally make the car explode (you need to be a high level Netrunner for that) and other hacks involve making the car accelerate unstoppably or engage emergency brakes (rendering it immobile). I’ve seen Teslas not only burn like hell with the doors somehow having an autolock feature always engaging at that time. It just makes me wonder how long it will be before one such Tesla fire is found to be a deliberate action by another to commit murder?
I am surprised that it hasn’t happened yet.
Remember Musk has access to all the car switches, pedals, steering, etc. if it happens often enough, it won’t be odd when it’s convenient for him that someone is burned alive in one of his mobile ovens.
one of his mobile ovens.
The real dream of all true Nazis.
Yeah, I guess history does repeat itself…
A smart murderer who wants to get away with their crime will make it look like an accident. If their victim drives a Tesla and they know how to exploit a software glitch then that is a golden opportunity.
it hasn’t happened because the cars can do it on their own just fine
Good morning 47, your target is WhatsHisAss, he drives a tesla and… oh, never mind. It set itself on fire, return to the safe house. You’ll receive the money for all expenses since you didn’t technically kill the guy…
You can hack cars and it has happened in the past but usually it requires physical access to the car. Even today they don’t really have network access which would open the entire car OS up to the internet (For what should be fairly obvious reasons). So you can’t just install a virus.
Of course if you do have physical access to the car you could just do something much less sophisticated like planting a bomb, it seems unnecessarily complicated to develop a system that would wait until the car is in a vulnerable position and then take control and crash it.
You can pop trunks and doors on a Tesla wirelessly using a flipper zero, which anyone can buy for ~100 bucks.
Yes but there’s no way to do sci-fi Hollywood stuff like taking over the car and driving it off at cliff. You’ve been able to open car doors by emulating the remote control for years but there’s nothing you can do that would compromise the operation of the vehicle in transit.
Okay cool? That wasn’t the question though. The question was if you could hack a car remotely. Popping the doors wirelessly counts in my book.
Everything in a Tesla is remote controllable, down to the odometer. It’s through Tesla’s own system but I am 100% sure that system has an Internet connection.
Heck I patched in my non-smart-car into my smarthome using an Onstar integration, I can lock and start it using Siri. Tesla’s system is just a way beefier version of Onstar. I wouldn’t be shocked if there was an app just for Elon to play with it all.
go back to playing video games, kid
I’m probably older than you.
The article is from march and the accident happened in November 2024.
Known bug.
Out of scope. Won’t be fixed.
Do we have a tally somewhere of people killed by Teslas? I bet they racked up quite the high score up until now.
Is that more or less than any other car maker?
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this whole article might as well just be this emoji: 🤷
Snopes is such shit now. Did they get bought or something? They’ve been trying really hard the last couple years to make things very lenient for the right wing.
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“You’re crashing it wrong”
They didn’t put it in crash mode before the collision. 100% the owners responsibility.
Wcgw when there’s no physical override?
There’s an app for that.
Engineers stopped doing things simply because analysts determined that businesses can make more money by selling products with complicated and unnecessary garbage.
Of course, no sympathy for people who get screwed over for buying a car that costs more than my house.
Another person who saw wealth as something to be used for status, not to help those who have less. Rest in piss.
Where can you can buy a house for $70k?
There are some real dumps in the world. The house can be fine but if the neighbourhood is bad it’s going to affect the price no matter what else is going on.
I don’t know why anyone would ever buy a Tesla
I know two uber-like drivers, but they’re on a better contract. One owns an EV and uses it for work: 100% tax credit that forces him to live a spartan existence and put his tax refund toward a better life. His peer, though, makes 100k+ doing fucking uberlyft work.
Combine those two and you’re sleeping in a fantastic car.
Just make sure you get a used one with the lidar rig.
Hang on I don’t understand what the tax has to do with anything but whatever.
Electric vehicles aren’t unsafe it’s just Tesla’s stop equating the two things
Well thankfully only those buying cyber trucks are maga… so darwin’s law I guess
Or stupid tech bros/MBAs with a lot of money in their pockets and not much in their brains for common decency. At least this explains the rare cyber truck I’ve spotted here in Mexico.
They’re fucking everywhere in Denver for some reason. I see at least one a day.
That’s pretty normal in a car crash, no? The frame crumples and the doors often get stuck.
Except in these, there are no fucking handles. So, even if you tried. Nope. No power no open. And with the hardened glass that would normally allow a rescuer to just shatter a window… Nope.
Enjoy dying in a fire.
Yeah, facts would be useful here, rather than speculation
- maybe the frame was deformed so the door couldn’t open
- maybe the door was locked
- maybe the button or solenoid was broken or unpowered
Maybe the lack of mechanical latch is to blame but we don’t know that yet
It’s called a fail safe the clue is in the name. The failure mode of a mechanism is it’s safe mode.
In cars with mechanical locks they require power to be in the locked position in the unlocked position a solenoid loses power and a mechanical spring pulls it into the unlocked position. So when it fails and loses power the default is to unlock. Sure the mechanism could become damaged and bent out of shape but we’re talking about a sliding bolt here, something that can be manipulated with a mechanical lever like a key.
Cars unlock the doors during a crash and this has been the standard for quite some time.
