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?
You realize tesla was already caught remotely disabling a guy’s car because he was modding it?
They can do all of this already. They can set the accelerator to 100% remotely if they want to, would take zero effort and then they can say it was a malfunction.
Now we are all being pin point tracked with our phones and recorded already of course, but the Tesla has GPS they can access and find you at any time too.
To be fair, every car can do this now even if its gas, because of all the bullshit electronics In cars. Its super easy to disable a normal gas car by shutting down the coil packs.