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Comment by mikeash | Hacker News Reader

Who did they call?

Tesla currently makes service manuals and tools available (for a hefty fee) to third parties, but only to accredited body shops, or residents of Massachusetts. I'm sure that last part is not a coincidence.

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The primary example that he might be referring to is this one [1]. It's someone reporting on their experience connecting to an ethernet port in his tesla and getting a call from Tesla to please stop.

http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-is-basically-a-good-lo...

More like "getting a call from Tesla to stop and then getting the port disabled".

Fun! At least it sounds like they were nice about it.

Nice about telling you how you could use the car you purchased from them in what universe is this reasonable.

I don't see that they told him anything, they just asked.

They remotely disabled the port, that isn't asking.

They remotely disabled the port? I can't see anything in the article to suggest that…where did you read this?

To clarify, they disabled it for everyone in a software update[1]. Some comments made it appear they just disabled it for this guy due to his hacking, but it was for everyone.

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/691884/

They shouldn't even know that he plugged anything into the ethernet port, let alone have a problem with that and ask him to stop... It's his car!

He could have disconnected the car from the internet before he started fiddling around if he wanted to hide his activities. The car makes no secret of the fact that it's always connected.

He didn't want to hide his activities, and shouldn't have to. They shouldn't be able to watch.

How long until somebody in MA screen captures the entire Model S service manual and puts it up for public consumption as a torrent?

Start a crowdfunding effort. There are enough Tesla owners in MA that at least one of them will be willing to do this.

Even if they did, just going off of experience with other software projects, my gut says the docs are obsolete before you're* even able to download them.

*someone from the commonwealth

Tesla would go out of business if they changed hardware that often.

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