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Unpatchable AMD Chip Flaw Unlocks Paid Tesla Feature Upgrades (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Original source: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/index.html#jailbreaking-an-electric-vehicle-in--or-what-it-means-to-hotwire-teslas-x-based-seat-heater-33049

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[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 year ago (58 children)

If all electric cars are just going to be subscription bullshit, I'm sorry, I won't be driving electric.

[–] BirdsWithBeefyArms 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a Rivian and it works great with no subscription. The only thing you can add via Sub is a hotspot, which seems reasonable to me.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm okay with being charged a monthly subscription for something that has an ongoing cost, like mobile data. So long as I can still hotspot my phone and access 'premium connectivity' features over wifi, that is.

[–] abhibeckert 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah about those 'premium connectivity features'... one of them is warning you that the road you're about to drive on has a traffic jam. And no, you can't have it use your phone's internet connection and you also can't do CarPlay or Android Auto.

For me real time traffic isn't a premium feature or an ad on. It's table stakes. And it should be free. Worse, not having it already almost makes your car hard to sell secondhand. Imagine what it'll be like several years ago when people start selling Rivians?

[–] BirdsWithBeefyArms 4 points 1 year ago

I agree, I do think they should allow both aa/cp, and wifi while driving so you can tether to your phones wifi. I'm not as doom about secondhand sales as you seem to be though.

[–] _stranger_ 1 points 1 year ago

It's not just the mobile data that's spendy, it's the API calls to the vendor(s) they're getting that data from.

Android Auto/Car Play would be nice, but having used both, the native Tesla nav is better.

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