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The SolarWinds hack at the end of 2020 cut SWI from ~$25 to $15 a share in very short order. Pun intended.

SolarWinds was a cybersecurity company, so a hack causes people to fundamentally question things. Tesla, on the other hand, doesn't need cars to get hacked for them to self-drive people into barriers or emergency vehicles, and the stock price isn't touched when yet another person dies. Why would a hack change anything?

Because from a safety perspective, the amount of distracted / drunk / texting drivers who would've otherwise crashed their cars vs the amount of Tesla autopilot caused crashes is one for every 5.89 million miles (from their own website) vs about 500k for humans.

From a purely pragmatic perspective, Tesla's that occasionally and irregularly crash are a way better alternative than terrible human drivers.

"hacking tesla" is much broader than crashing a car that's self driving.

It's lifting secret keys that allow criminals to open any Tesla 'till an OTA update, or callback has been rolled out. For days exposing your Tesla+luggage to theft. Or just breaking stuff: imagine the flack of every tesla driver suddenly losing access to navigation or entertainment for weeks. Or camera access: imagine the outrage if hackers can record and publish anything done and said inside and around Teslas in the last months?

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