Scenario: Undocumented immigrant family in Minneapolis get in their Tesla car to go to work, school or shopping. The doors lock and are disabled via software OTA. Because they are not mechanical, the family can’t open the doors. They try to roll down a window, but that too is software controlled. The buttons do nothing. They are trapped.
The car then disables the steering colums via OTA software so the wheel goes limp. It is a drive by wire steering with no mechanical, rack and pinion physical link for the driver to control.
The cars autodrive engages and sends the trapped family to an ICE detention facility.
Is there any design feature stopping this from from hapening today?
Smash the window, you can get one of those hammers for breaking tempered glass and with a belt cutter on the other end.
Now smash a few sensors.
Or don’t buy, or get into a swasticar in the first place.
Far more fun to set fire to them at the dealership. They are just sitting there, being all flammable…