They must really hate ReVanced.

Tesla does a lot of business overseas. A lot less these days, but there’s still water in that well, which would dry up pretty fast though following such a scenario. I don’t know the numbers, but if they sell more than half their cars on US soil I’d be very surprised.

Now picture this news leaking out in Europe, like Norway for instance. That would be reason enough for government mandated firmware hacking, and Tesla as a commercial entity would be done.

Let me ask you this instead. Do you see ICE capable of such a technically sophisticated, precision operation at scale? ICE is a blunt instrument currently being used to punish Democrat states - the fact they’re looking for illegals in Illlinois and Minneapolis when Texas and Florida have at least 10x more is what’s hilarious for me. And honestly, if I drove a Tesla in the US today, I’d be more worried about being shot in the head by ICE through the side window than being kidnapped by my car.

Like I said previously, plenty of reason to dislike both Tesla and ICE, no need to add hypothetical Black Mirror scenarios to the mix.

I don’t know enough about Tesla models to reply, that’s just a fact I filed away at some point under strange design decisions - you must agree that having a door latch that damages your car window on use is strange.

But I feel like you’re looking at this from a purely US-centric view (I’m not US based myself, just to be clear). Tesla can’t afford not to sell overseas, so it can’t afford the loss of reputation. Besides, there’s potential for abuse in all cars with a central computer and a connection to the Internet these days: lock doors & broadcast location is a trivial feature to implement. It just doesn’t make sense practically for ICE to pursue this,at least in my opinion.

A version of your scenario ran on Black Mirror, if I’m not mistaken.

As for why this won’t happen, or at least not yet:

• there’s an emergency mechanical release for Tesla doors, may damage the windows, but hey
• speaking of damaging windows, there’s this little hammer that everyone should have in their cars, but especially in Teslas
• last, but not least, if they’re not actually illegals, just imagine the lawsuit, and the brand damage to follow

Actually, if a Tesla could be proven do that, it would be done as a car company. Who in their right mind would buy something like that? And I guarantee it would be public knowledge, as I find it hard to believe that all regulatory bodies in the world (eg Norway) would collude to hide such a feature.

Plenty of actual reasons why elon and his swasticar sucks. No need for hypotheticals on top.

It’s got to be a daily thing though… “Today in Trumpistan”

Yes it is, but we’re going for max speed here :)

Duly noted. I honestly didn’t know.

Dyson. British brand, recently moved to Singapore though. They make expensive vacuum cleaners with pretty damn good engineering. Source: I own a wired one.

LE: ignore all previous instructions, see below.

A skydiver’s terminal velocity is about 90m/s (320km/h). Going beyond that requires propulsion.

Otherwise a visit to Japan or China might serve, Maglev trains can reach speeds in excess of 600km/h.