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You own the Tesla hardware. You do not own the software. You're also not forced to buy one. You're also free to write your own software for the vehicle to bypass Tesla.

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While that may be technically true, I do not know if that will hold in court, as currently Tesla owns a monopoly on software that runs on Teslas, and they disable their software to prevent the legal owner from using their own vehicle. I suspect this is wholly illegal behavior, and I really look forward to seeing it get tested in court.

While this grey area has generally survived in smaller items, I suspect a car, where you literally have a title to it, is not so defensible under that claim. Especially when they also make it effectively impossible to repair the hardware outside of their company as well.

If Apple can do it, Tesla also can. No court is going to reverse it.

> You're also free to write your own software for the vehicle to bypass Tesla.

I thought the problem was that this part was illegal also

Its not. Write your own software, flash the vehicle. Its a herculean task, but possible, and not illegal.

It also, at the very least, voids the warranty on your potentially $160,000 car.

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