Tesla software is considered one of the most secure and light years ahead of what other carmakers install in their vehicles. Still, researchers found out...
Jailbreaking automated equipment introduces a ton of risk. I’m generally a supporter of being able to do whatever you want with things you own, but things like this where tinkering with a heavy object on wheels where glitches will kill people, I’d be fine with some amount of regulation here probably from NHTSA. We really don’t want some random person running a 1-click tool to hack their self driving car to install buggy self driving software that may or may not have still have the safety overrides still working. Imagine if what they think they’re installing is FSD beta from Tesla but what they’re really installing is something infected with spyware which corrupts safety overrides?
I don’t know much about how driver takeover and brake pedal take over works on the Teslas, maybe these fears are unfounded, just my 2 cents.
Also brake application disconnects FSD or any other active driver assist. Steering wheel take over disconnects FSD, but switches to adaptive cruise unless you do it in conjunction with the brake pedal.
You don’t have to tug hard on the steering wheel to take over either.
You can also just pull the gear stalk slightly up and remain in full control without any jerk to any input.
But agreed that people messing around with their own car software isn’t necessarily a good idea.
That said, I’ve learned a lot of things about how Teslas systems work by occasionally following this guy; https://twitter.com/greentheonly
Jailbreaking automated equipment introduces a ton of risk. I’m generally a supporter of being able to do whatever you want with things you own, but things like this where tinkering with a heavy object on wheels where glitches will kill people, I’d be fine with some amount of regulation here probably from NHTSA. We really don’t want some random person running a 1-click tool to hack their self driving car to install buggy self driving software that may or may not have still have the safety overrides still working. Imagine if what they think they’re installing is FSD beta from Tesla but what they’re really installing is something infected with spyware which corrupts safety overrides?
I don’t know much about how driver takeover and brake pedal take over works on the Teslas, maybe these fears are unfounded, just my 2 cents.
Likely won’t ever be able to give you FSD.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tesla-mcu-amd-asp-flaw-jailbreak
Also brake application disconnects FSD or any other active driver assist. Steering wheel take over disconnects FSD, but switches to adaptive cruise unless you do it in conjunction with the brake pedal.
You don’t have to tug hard on the steering wheel to take over either.
You can also just pull the gear stalk slightly up and remain in full control without any jerk to any input.
But agreed that people messing around with their own car software isn’t necessarily a good idea.
That said, I’ve learned a lot of things about how Teslas systems work by occasionally following this guy; https://twitter.com/greentheonly