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?
This is why I keep saying the future aucks. Bring back 1999 please. Cars were perfect until about 2010. People were way to willing to give in to surveillance for sake of convenience. But humans are stupid and lazy above all.
I totally agree. Luckily for me I have an old mechanically operated car that I plan to keep forever.