Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks agoI have some bad news for you - any random idiot with a driver’s license and a two-ton death machine already puts your ass at risk, all the time. We call it “traffic” because we’ve just gotten used to it
It is not comparable, not even by far.
Assuming your are not a psycho, to safely drive a car is orders of magnitude (in plural) easier than modifying the Sw in a safe and deterministic way.
It is not only that bad people exists, it is about that making a small mistake can kill you
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m talking ‘I disabled the awareness requirement of autopilot’ or ‘I fucked with the object detection and here goes my beta test yolo’ or ‘I added a button to disable all the lights so I can covertly street race’ or…
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
And? People can already do this with most cars.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a difference between ‘physical work required’ and ‘plug in this dongle and run the exe’ though
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have you never heard of tunes?
Any idiot can make substantial software changes to almost any modern car with easily available inexpensive hardware. Look up Cobb, ECUtek, openflashtablet, Hondata, etc
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
See above nested comment; tune aren’t inherently a safety concern.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Imagine thinking Tesla has all-that-much in place to prevent those things in a stock configuration. Full-stop, any self-driving is one of the first features anyone trying to disconnect their cars from Tesla servers would lose outright.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ehh doubt, but I don’t have a tesla to verify. If I can sever the connection to the home base, I can fuck with it however I want, and their kill switch is useless. Maybe they implemented the kill switch in the modem or something, but again I can’t test. I highly doubt that when you’re road-tripping in bumfuck nowhere the ap disables itself…
Anybody want to give me $40k? We can be besties.