The article is from march and the accident happened in November 2024.
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I played Cyberpunk 2077 and Hitman: World of Assassinations. In Cyberpunk 2077 one hack in the game is to literally make the car explode (you need to be a high level Netrunner for that) and other hacks involve making the car accelerate unstoppably or engage emergency brakes (rendering it immobile). I've seen Teslas not only burn like hell with the doors somehow having an autolock feature always engaging at that time. It just makes me wonder how long it will be before one such Tesla fire is found to be a deliberate action by another to commit murder?
I am surprised that it hasn't happened yet.
I think Musk has openly stated that he wants to be Arasaka
Remember Musk has access to all the car switches, pedals, steering, etc. if it happens often enough, it won't be odd when it's convenient for him that someone is burned alive in one of his mobile ovens.
one of his mobile ovens.
The real dream of all true Nazis.
Yeah, I guess history does repeat itself....
it hasn't happened because the cars can do it on their own just fine
You can hack cars and it has happened in the past but usually it requires physical access to the car. Even today they don't really have network access which would open the entire car OS up to the internet (For what should be fairly obvious reasons). So you can't just install a virus.
Of course if you do have physical access to the car you could just do something much less sophisticated like planting a bomb, it seems unnecessarily complicated to develop a system that would wait until the car is in a vulnerable position and then take control and crash it.
I'm pretty sure that Teslas do have network access as they're updated remotely. Unless I'm misremembering.
You can pop trunks and doors on a Tesla wirelessly using a flipper zero, which anyone can buy for ~100 bucks.
Everything in a Tesla is remote controllable, down to the odometer. It's through Tesla's own system but I am 100% sure that system has an Internet connection.
Heck I patched in my non-smart-car into my smarthome using an Onstar integration, I can lock and start it using Siri. Tesla's system is just a way beefier version of Onstar. I wouldn't be shocked if there was an app just for Elon to play with it all.
Snopes is such shit now. Did they get bought or something? They've been trying really hard the last couple years to make things very lenient for the right wing.
Is that what happened? I was kinda amazed by the amount of ads in there now. Snopes article aside, the stats in that image are misleading. Surprisingly many people die in car fires, and EV's have a much lower rate of that. Of course, the cyber truck is still a dumpster fire.
this whole article might as well just be this emoji: 🤷
Well thankfully only those buying cyber trucks are maga… so darwin’s law I guess
Or stupid tech bros/MBAs with a lot of money in their pockets and not much in their brains for common decency. At least this explains the rare cyber truck I've spotted here in Mexico.
They're fucking everywhere in Denver for some reason. I see at least one a day.
Engineers stopped doing things simply because analysts determined that businesses can make more money by selling products with complicated and unnecessary garbage.
Of course, no sympathy for people who get screwed over for buying a car that costs more than my house.
Another person who saw wealth as something to be used for status, not to help those who have less. Rest in piss.
Where can you can buy a house for $70k?
There are some real dumps in the world. The house can be fine but if the neighbourhood is bad it's going to affect the price no matter what else is going on.
You can buy a lot and park a trailer on it for less than that in the midwest. They never said it was a nice house in a nice location.
"You're crashing it wrong"
They didn't put it in crash mode before the collision. 100% the owners responsibility.
I don’t know why anyone would ever buy a Tesla
I know two uber-like drivers, but they're on a better contract. One owns an EV and uses it for work: 100% tax credit that forces him to live a spartan existence and put his tax refund toward a better life. His peer, though, makes 100k+ doing fucking uberlyft work.
Combine those two and you're sleeping in a fantastic car.
Just make sure you get a used one with the lidar rig.
Hang on I don't understand what the tax has to do with anything but whatever.
Electric vehicles aren't unsafe it's just Tesla's stop equating the two things
Nothing about what you just said explains why anyone would want a Tesla; more the benefit of having an EV period. There are better EVs out there than a Tesla.
Known bug.
Out of scope. Won't be fixed.
Who cares, FSD is so safe that doors opening in emergencies isn’t really necessary.
I’m joking of course, fuck.
Wcgw when there's no physical override?
There’s an app for that.
Most modern cars automatically lock doors when you reach certain speed (like 20km/h). I checked and automatically unlocking door on impact is a separate feature that may or may not be present in a car. So I think you won't be able to open most modern cars from the outside after a crash. The only difference is that you will open other cars from the inside without issues while in Tesla you have to use other door handle in front seats and it's really complicated to open them from the back seats. Is that right?
which is so stupid, who would break in your car at 20kmh?
I always thought the opposite would make much more sense, locking doors when you're below 10kmh and unlocking once driving
Firefighters always struggle more to open locked doors (duh) as much as I hate those, I don't think it's something specific to it.
It's to prevent you from accidentally opening the door.
It’s more to keep you from being carjacked than for accidental door openings.
yes protect me from being carjacked at speed
The doors still stay locked when you stop. At least for mine the doors don't unlock again until you put it park. They just lock when you start moving because the vehicle moving is a good indication that you don't need the doors unlocked anymore.
the automatic transmission cars ive driven that were similar locked when you took it out of park
That's all bullshit of course. Cars lock the doors when going above a certain speed for the first time and the airbag control module always sends a crash signal across the various can buses during an airbag deployment event that is used by various other control units for example to unlock the doors or kill the gas pump. My twenty year old Audi had that
I still can open the doors from inside, just not from outside
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I guess they don't lock/unlock constantly because that would be annoying in stop and go traffic.
Also probably really bad for solenoids and locking mechanisms.
I think that’s the big reason. Lots of wear
Yes, they don't. What good would that be for the intended purpose, e.g. coming to a stop at a red light.
Also they don't want people to know the lock parts are probably cheap nylon and zinc pot metal designed to crack after 7,000 uses. :o lol
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