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Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features From Customer's Used Tesla Without Any Notice [Updated]
One of the less-considered side effects of car features moving from hardware to software is that important features and abilities of a car can now be removed without any actual contact with a given car. Where once de-contenting involved at least a screwdriver (or, if you were in a hurry, a...
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Aside from the individual circumstances in this case this would put me right off buying any car like this. For anyone to have so much remote control over a car that myself, my wife and my children may be driving is an issue for me. I do not 100% trust the technology or the company operating the remote functions and accessibility. Would I trust it with mine, my wife or my children's safety and/lives? No. I think this is very different to trusting a manufacturer to build a safe car.
It would worry me that a software glitch could make the car do something quite dramatic an dangerous. Especially as these cars have more drive by wire control than mechanical control. I have been in the IT/tech world for over 25 years and there is sometimes a situation that occurs (often called a glitch!) that cannot ever be explained and just happened once for no reason.
For a manufacture to have control over a computer or mobile phone to disable a feature is not right but not a life or death scenario. However a car.....is that not going a bit too far and potentially creating a safety issue? Or is it just me being overbearing or paranoid?