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Re:Tesla tries to get owners to give up ‘unlimited free Supe... by rhn_mk1 on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:50PM (#35690071)
All other things being equal, there's nothing wrong with trying to shove computers into a car.

Trouble starts when the computer is networked and therefore vulnerable to more attacks. And for networked computers, security updates are table stakes. Feature updates are merely nice.

To compare apples to apples, you need to compare Tesla to another brand of networked cars.

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Re:Tesla tries to get owners to give up ‘unlimited free Supe... by BrandoElFollito on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:22PM (#35692667)
I have a Toyota RAV4 that is networked and this is a sad joke.

Toyota lives in the 90's from a cyber technology perspective. It is so bad that I wonder how the engineers who work there can say to themselves "I did something great".

I do not know other cars but I guess this is similar.

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Re:Tesla tries to get owners to give up ‘unlimited free Supe... by JohnFen on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:42PM (#35693682)
> All other things being equal, there's nothing wrong with trying to shove computers into a car.

I think that's preferable. That Teslas are "computers with a car built around them" that phone home to the mothership and get automatic updates is the main reason why I will never buy a Tesla.

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