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A comment on Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs. Parent comment

Re:Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs by greenyoda on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:06PM (#7092297)
Yeah, if you can program a car to not catch fire, it should also be possible to program a car to catch fire.
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Re:Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs by sliverstorm on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:28PM (#7092367)
You could do all sorts of nasty things depending on the car. With a gasoline car, you could melt the engine if the fuel maps are accessible via OTA.
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Re:Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs by Ygg2 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:30AM (#7095061)
You can probably melt the battery in Tesla. Batteries are heated, right? Add stress to batter, turn heaters on. Watch battery melt and/or explode. You can already do similar attack on laptops.
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