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Re:Revenue from self-driving Teslas only allowed through the... by masklinn on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:40AM (#12752612)
Many high-end cars have embedded cellular connections, in 2015 Miller and Valasek managed to crack into Jeep's, jump the airgap and take control of the car over the OTA reporting connection: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

No idea if that's the case with Toyota, but it's definitely possible with some high-end cars (most definitely including Teslas which routinely report to the mothership) (incidentally it's fun seeing people drool over teslas then freak out at Firefox or MS telemetry)

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Re:Revenue from self-driving Teslas only allowed through the... by EdHominem on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:09PM (#12755681)
Amusingly, the air-gap was a firewall on a chip. No air whatsoever. They got around it a few ways, including most effectively, by re-flashing it to just be a passthrough.

Based on that, I'd say anyone who is injured because of this in any way has a great claim against the company for lying about the equipment they provided.

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