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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
go back to playing video games, kid
I think Musk has openly stated that he wants to be Arasaka
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.
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.
The real dream of all true Nazis.
Yeah, I guess history does repeat itself…
it hasn’t happened because the cars can do it on their own just fine
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.
I’m pretty sure that Teslas do have network access as they’re updated remotely. Unless I’m misremembering.
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.