So if you buy one of these you need an internet connection and the car needs to “phone home” before it will operate? Reason number 1,000 never to purchase one of these.
I am never having a car that depends on servers.
Seems to me i’d still like my car to be able to drive when the internet connectivity isn’t there.
Get a guy like Gomer Pyle to get to your breakdown site with his tow truck from Wally’s Filling Station and bring a gallon of gas and jumper cables.
Uh, sorry, I forgot. No can do with an EV.
Tesla is a cool niche car but it shouldn’t be mainstream. Unfortunately, our government officials already have made that decision for us.
Oooo, I sure hope the ransomware terrorists don’t starting smelling blood in the water here.
Can’t start your car unless you’re logged in? What can possibly go wrong.
I thought the phrase “Must have connection to the internet” was strictly a software restriction.
Lol.. now we cant even drive our effing cars without it?
A software-controlled car is soooo vulnerable.
To everything.
Electric car? Yup, probably will get one...but not right now.
But keep the programming wienies outta it. If I want electronic control, I’ll take logic gates - not an OS mucking things up by remote control.
I have at least one or two vehicles that don’t even have ECUs.
There are 4 ways to unlock a Tesla, one being use of a phone to remotely unlock via server. If you don’t have a second means handy, that’s your problem - not everywhere has a cell connection.
Odd timing that right after Musk starts punching-left, he gets hit by hackers. Whatever “Anonymous” started out as, they are now tools of the DNC.
“Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars”
Not sure what one has to do with each other. I can see how a server outage limits what the customers can show off to their friends, but hard to see how driving is affected, since people don’t buy Tesla’s to actually drive.
My 95 Ford truck keeps looking better and better.
Welcome to your future transportation! For it will be required.
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Deep Faithless body control. The coming body Mark.
Ping.
All the federal enthusiasm for electric cars feels like the beginning of a sci-fi movie about technology running amok ...
In a world of terabytes of storage, gigabytes or RAM, and megabits/second of throughput, why do so many OSes and programs insist on obscure error code numbers?