Elon Musk asked by Twitter users to deactivate all Teslas in Russia

What a spectacularly bad idea.

1. If they can do it for Russia, they can do it for others too.

2. A car is not a service, it's a product. Bricking it after it's purchased for cold, hard cash amounts to vandalism of personal property, not an embargo.

Of course. But we need to figure out how to ensure this in a way that doesn't depend so delicately on Tesla being able to resist pressure from, say, the US Senate.

This is a great way to kill a car company. People in tech here know this can be done but the general public does not.

Remote bricking would cause a large % of potential customers to avoid this company completely.

> What a spectacularly bad idea.

That they could do it is already a spectacularly bad idea. I would never buy a Tesla because of this.

Apple should do the same, as Microsoft as Google and others … all should turn off the world and let them taste their own medicine

If Tesla can deactivate Teslas in Russia, they can deactivate for others in west too. For whatever excuse comes in future.