Is there an option to physically disable this?
When i finally get an EV I don’t want it to be online in any form, is it even possible to get one like that?
Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by n3cr0@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/hack-turns-nissan-leaf-into-giant-rc-car/
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BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Impromptu2599@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is not just EVs, this can be done on almost every new car in some form or another.
n3cr0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Install the latest update and hope for the best.
Or try disabling bluetooth.
Or try to get a car without autonomous parking.
Seems like there is no real option though.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Install the latest update and hope for the best.
The addiction is also the cure.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is t really an EV-related thing.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Get a usedoderately old petrol car and do an EV motor swap into it.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I want the new technology but it has to work like the old, and I can answer myself: Okay boomer!
I’ll have to find a compromise when I finally get an EV.
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
I think there’s a few options, in order of increasing cost:
- get a really cheap one
- get an older one that uses a defunct connectivity method
- modify one to remove/replace any telemetry modules
- build it yourself from scratch using parts from ali express or similar
- get a shop to build one for you
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I was hoping for “get an older one that uses a defunct connectivity method”
The last car I got is from 2015 so in 10 years I’ll get one from this year (but not tesla).
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Remove the modem. When I was researching chevy bolts that was the first video I looked up and there was a guy walking through it. It involved opening up the panels and was time consuming but I was willing to do it. Unfortunately, didn’t end up getting a chevy bolt.
Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Get an old leaf with a new battery?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 weeks ago
Wow, super impressive. Now we need a live video feed from some forward facing camera to give some FPV perspective and a gamepad.
crank0271@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
…a semi-autonomous vehicle surveying a dead landscape?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 weeks ago
Sure. It could do your summer vacation including those nasty traffic jams without your participation. Send back a few pictures from important landmarks and monuments, all the while you sit in front of your computer in your air conditioned home like the hacker in the video.
Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
How can an attacker control the steering?
n3cr0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bluetooth -> infotainment system -> CANBUS -> Lane Assist or adaptive steering
Die infotainment system should not have this permission, but it does.
The loophole is the connected smartphone from the driver. An attacker could deauthenticate it and mimic the car app.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Lots of modern cars have electric power steering. Many of them have lane keep assist.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Somebody did something similar for a Jeep like a decade ago… but somehow people still expect the results to be different now.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
These would be better robo taxis
Buske@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Never buy a tesla, Elon and any employee can just watch you, hell if they really wanted they could drive you into on coming traffic for the fun of it. Majority of those accidents were not.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
thats a premium feature.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The thing that pisses me off most is that cars have these vulnerabilities, and automakers do a shit job of protecting them, but do just a good enough job to keep me, the owner, from playing with them.