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I don't think anyone's taking a soldering iron to their on-board computer in a standard ICE vehicle. The fact that tesla has vehicle control code running on it (beyond your typical lane assist) makes this infinitely worse. Or am I missing something? I get that people disagree with these features being locked down and I agree. My point is this isn't like changing a cold air intake in your ICE car. This can have you go into a fucking wall at high speeds.

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There's no reason to limit the components people can tinker with to electronics! Everyone is free to (attempt to) replace their brake fluid - or repair the brakes - which can cause disaster at high speeds if not done correctly. I'm yet to hear anyone asking for access to vehicular hydraulics to be locked down in order to protect people from themselves.

>I don't think anyone's taking a soldering iron to their on-board computer in a standard ICE vehicle.

This is a multi-million dollar industry in the USA.

The part they're messing with it's "just" the infotainment system. The autopilot system and a lot of other things are "protected" by a gateway.

You'd still need Tesla's signing key to rewrite the Autopilot software or mess up some more important components.

Now, the CID is still coordinating some parts of it - but AFAIK the car works also without that, to the point that you can simply reboot the infotainment system without losing control of the vehicle / Autopilot

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