Hackers were able to exploit the AMD Secure Processor which allows them to jailbreak the infotainment system. The hackers believe that they can run any software they want and essentially unlock any features that are software-locked. It’s “un-patchable” short of a hardware updates from Tesla.
Fuck yeah, subscription-unlocks for existing features on cars should be illegal, and until it is I fully support all jailbreaking/hacking of these companies’ products
subscription-unlocks for existing features on
carsanything should be illegal
Reminds me of when my ISP wanted to charge $2/month to enable Wi-Fi. A monthly fee to just once remotely flip a switch on hardware already in my house. I went out and bought my own router for $60 and it paid for itself many times over at $2/month.
This sort of thing absolutely needs you be illegal before companies have us renting every feature of every physical product around us.
Fuck yeah, subscription-unlocks for existing features on cars should be illegal
…what? Do you have any idea how much it cost to develop that software? You realize you’d just be arbitrarily jacking up prices and forcing people to buy shit they don’t want?
…am I having a stroke? Isn’t the subscription-model literally “forcing people” to pay a higher base price because the car includes expensive (but disabled!) components that you then have to pay more money to unlock?
It’s a question of paying extra for a car with costly (to manufacture) subscription-locked features that you don’t want and won’t use vs being able to buy a stripped-down, base model with hand-crank windows, no?
Am I getting whooshed rn? That’s the only explanation that makes sense, that I’m missing the sarcasm or something.
…am I having a stroke?
I think maybe yes.
Isn’t the subscription-model literally “forcing people” to pay a higher base price because the car includes expensive (but disabled!) components that you then have to pay more money to unlock?
Depends on the product but generally no.
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In the case of FSD the only hardware included is the cameras and processor, which is used for lots of different purposes. It’s a software-unlock because you are paying for the development of the software.
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Generally it costs more money to create separate production lines for different hardware than it does to just put the hardware in every vehicle. This is why Tesla has so few hardware configurations and paints, and why other manufacturers don’t have itemized options, they only sell them in packages.
That’s the only explanation that makes sense, that I’m missing the sarcasm or something.
Or that you don’t understand how production lines work.
