A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

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    But, I think a capability that hasn’t been fully revealed to us yet is the ability for manufacturers and (presumably intelligence/law enforcement agencies) full remote takeover of some of these vehicles.

    Assuming it is a Tesla, if they do, it’s likely only implemented in a targeted OTA update package. Tesla’s regular firmware packages are heavily scrutinized by white-hats for datamining and jailbreaking purposes, and it would be far too risky to leave something like that accessible to people with reverse engineering experience.

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      2 months ago

      I did not know that stuff was available to the public to scrutinize. Interesting.

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        It’s not. But as with any computer, if someone has physical access, they can extract compiled code and reverse engineer it.

        I mentioned Tesla specifically because there’s enough interest in reverse engineering their cars that it would be unlikely for them to be able to slip something like that in without it getting quickly noticed.