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What happens to Twitter can also happen to your Tesla. Buyers beware.
A lot of Telsa’s stuff is already paywalled.
This has always been an interesting point for me. If I buy a secondhand Tesla, I've signed none of the agreements made between the initial buyer and Tesla. I wonder if I could disconnect it and hack the interface to unlock the disabled features that don't require network access, or spoof the authorization for some of those?
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act forbids some of that.
Ah yes, a shame if someone ignored it etc etc.
It's much harder to fuck up so quickly, since a Tesla is not a live service, so there's not a lot that will change about the already sold cars.
I guess if Musk decides to save money by firing engineers and reducing QA on the car software, and insists on pushing really buggy software then it could get gnarly I guess, but I don't think he's that stupid, and I don't think all these Twitter moves are entirely about trying to make a profit; It's so bad I think there is a level of malevolence involved.
Almost the entire vehicle interface is software and screens. If he’s doing it at Twitter he could just as easily start doing weird paywall stuff with Tesla.
The car is effectively a live service.. they've completely changed the UI multiple times.. they can lock out features.. they'll likely disable ultrasonic sensors once they think their camera based version is working..
The only thing they can't do is add hardware.