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?
I have.
You’re fearmongering.
This is like saying Elon Musk is planning to raise Godzilla from the depths of the oceans to round up immigrants. Saying “that is not a realistic thing to be worried about” isn’t being an apologist. It is having basic common sense.
No. This is saying ICE is rounding up immigrants. They absolutely are without question. I am also saying the people leading this, including Trump and Elon have particularly novel tools at their disposal that could be used in an unprecedented way.
That a megalomaniacle fascist billionaire built cars with clear dual use features is a clear and present danger that people need to be aware of. The risk is here.
If you had an ounce of common sense you would have said “yes. Good point, I hope it doesn’t come to that.” And we’d be done.
^ This is conspiracy nutjob statement.
I tried helping him too. He ain’t getting it.
We can’t pretend we haven’t seen American technology built with dual use, enshittification and geostrategic power. The US government themselves decry Chinese technology as a threat, when it only does exactly what American tech does. Now the safeguards of courts and democracy that prevented abuse of this are largely gone and this technological capability is controlled by openly fascist psychopaths, the threat is as real and in your face as it gets.
Well, you can pretend. Clearly everything is fine and there is nothing to see here according to you.