It's disappointing that the NHTSA is allowing details to be sealed.
If there is a cheat code and it has been potentially leaked by employees the public surely has a right to know about it.
If there is a cheat code and it has been potentially leaked by employees the public surely has a right to know about it.
I don’t think that there’s a hidden command to do so from the dashboard, but surely they can do it remotely. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a “if user === elon” condition just like on Twitter
The original article mentions that it could be enabled via “cheat code” but nothing points towards that, so my hardcoded condition is just as good a speculation.
A better article: https://electrek.co/2023/06/22/tesla-autopilot-elon-mode-not...
Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside maybe from remote start. Where are the legislators? Where are the regulatory bodies?
Tesla’s backend for fleet management at least used to be an absolute shit show that barely worked on the best day.
Apart from that, remember when (I think it was?) Troy Hunt published an article on how trivial it was to control some in-car features with nothing but a VIN and Internet connection?
There are certainly ways to do these things correctly. But until those measures are required by law and are -actually- implemented both consistently and sanely, it’ll be an intermittent bad time. The auto industry can barely get hardware security right, let alone electronic and digital security.