Cybertruck deactivated on road after a cease and desist for using it in a song
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A company that will disable your vehicle while it's in operation because they're mad at you is a company that nobody should do business with under any circumstances whatsoever. (I'm assuming the story is true for the sake of argument. I don't know that it is.)
Next thing they know, their vehicle's firmware was forcibly downgraded to a version that had no references, was forcibly version-locked at that firmware version, and had the Ethernet and OBD ports disabled.
I would be amazed if there are not interlocks to prevent an update while in drive. On normal updates there is definitely an interlock, plus a timer, but theoretically it is possible.
Why haven't the people who did this been arrested? Surely the US too, has laws against public endagerment?
As for why it's legal in the USA, it's legal for corporations and rich people to kill people over there.
It's actually possible that I should send an e-mail to a prosecutor, and I guess I will. It's probably against the regulations specifying how cars must be built too, but it isn't my job to care about that, I just inform.
Edit: They don't actually sell the Cybertruck here in Sweden though. Hmm. Maybe just a quick e-mail.
Edit: There are seems to be some hoax claims. I guess if that's true, that's defamation from the rapper instead. Very stupid in the case.
Shocking video telling everyone not to buy Tesla.
I had to take a second look as well because the red box isn't clear to read
You might not even have a mechanism to push error messages. You might just push a corrupted update package to them.