UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.
*Original Post*
Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.
Just wanted to say, huge props for editing the post and title when you found out it was debunked. That's so important and too many people just don't take that step when they learn, so upvoted for that
My late friend Robotech_Master once said to me that there are things too bad to be true
Just one more reason not to buy a Tesla ever.
And honestly, any of those cars that can be remotely deactivated. I'm shopping now, and I really don't like all the tracking in cars these days...
So you’re going to buy a used car
Yup, but I need to be careful on years because newer used cars still have this crap.
Vintage!
A company being able to deactivate your purchased property is absolutely dystopian
Not absolutely, because a company being able to deactivate your purchased property for ulterior reasons is more dystopian.
I also suspect the rapper wasn't exactly praising the cybertruck, so that would add "for ~~insulting~~ misrepresenting? a company". That's even more dystopian.
You don't have to suspect anything, watch the video. He's hyping the Cybertruck, hyping, "I'm RICH BEEYOTCH!" This is Tesla trying to distance themselves from that message.
While that song and message are shit, so is Tesla.
This is peak face eating leopards content all around.
Also I wonder if a white rapper singing the same song would have had his shit-pyramid disabled as fast.
Tesla factories have had a racism problem for years.
Man, if all electric cars can do this bullshit, then I think I'm gonna just be stuck with an internal combustion engine no matter how bad they are for the environment.
Ain't no way I'm gonna get into a vehicle that can be remotely disabled by a jackass.
This isn't specific to electric cars, vehicles equipped with On Star can be remotely disabled in the event of theft (and by extension I imagine a legal injunction). I imagine this extends to other vehicles also.
The real problem is the OTA updates and always-online nature of modern vehicles, not necessarily what powers them.
Yes, but I don't have to buy a car with OnStar in it. It seems like every electric car has these OTA features at least in the states. In internal combustion cars that can avoid those features. I'd be more than happy to buy any one of these electric cars if I control the updates and there's no always on connection.
At least w/ OnStar, there are documented ways to disable it, and it's honestly not all that difficult (basically remove power to the OnStar device). Some cars are more integrated, so disabling that crap is a lot more difficult w/o breaking anything important.
Hey maybe we shouldn't have a world where car companies can remotely deactivate your vehicle if you say mean things about them?
If car companies can't remotely deactivate your vehicle, how will they be able to extort you and harass you and sell you out to the police?
Imagine:
You have parking lots full of your cars that can't sell because your CEO is basically in the top 5 of horrible humans.
You have horror stories about kids burning alive in the cars because they couldn't open the doors.
You have a Rapper, with social following, in Detroit, Motor City, with a 100k model of your car who makes a song about how you're fucking up, and you shut down his 100k car and send a c&d.
Could you imagine a PR department being this bad at its job?
He could make a music video burning the thing to the ground and make his money back.
Clippy moment 📎💬
Unacceptable. It should be illegal to even build the capability to brick someone else's property
This is a major feature of nearly all cars now. Dealerships can remotely track and disable cars when people fall behind on their payments. That's because so many people fall behind on payments nowadays, they need easy mechanisms for dealing with it. America is cooked.
seems like this should go to court - make tesla prove these claims, and explain how they're allowed to stifle both free speech and parody.
because this is absolute bullshit
"Free speech absolutist"
Verge reported there are signs the video may be fix and Tesla posted to confirm that it was indeed fake.
https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake
Tesla's reply: "This is fake – that’s not our screen. Tesla does NOT disable vehicles remotely."
They do though, so thats a total lie. Try getting into your car that you paid for firmware, see if tesla locks you down.
I'll note none of my old cars have this problem. Don't buy new cars people.
This is a good case to battle the shit out of Tesla in court and set a landmark verdict on the "you buy but don't own" abuse.
Usually this would however require that courts are capable of reaching proper verdicts, that the government actually cared about the people, that consumer protection agencies had any footing etc. Alas, all of them are infiltrated by the big capital corporations.
Why is anyone still driving piece of shit teslas
Anyone who buys a fucking motor vehicle that comes with Terms and Conditions agreement, let alone one that can be spontaneously and remotely turned off... you're a fucking moron. And Tesla needs to be sued into oblivion. That shit should NOT be legal.
Mr "freedom of speech absolutionist" hard at work I see
This is what happens when you buy a car from a tech company. There is no reason that a Ts&Cs should ever come with a car - but here we are. For now, avoid any company that does things like this. Top of mind are Tesla and BMW
LOL registered previously in your name OR in your possession....
So Tesla doesn't even give a shit if the guy still owns the vehicle, they deactivated it because he owned it at one point in time.
He could have sold it to some poor fuck who now has a bricked Cyber truck and Tesla don't give a fuck.
Lol, Cybercucks getting what they deserve. Don't drive a swasticar if you don't want consequences. It was Tesla, this time. Next time, it could just be a citizen looking to enact a bit of justice.
Inb4 douchebags defending their Tesla because they bought it "before Elon was crazy". Your lack of awareness does not excuse your bad choices. Sell your Tesla.
Time for a sequel to "United Breaks Guitars."
"Tesla bricked me truuuk."
Just looked up the lyrics and it's just Huey saying he drives a cybertruck because he's got money. I bet the only reason Musk hates it is because he's a racist shitbag
These guys are tender.
We talk trash on european cars since ever. Brands and models alike. Nobody cares. And getting a car that was paid for blocked because someone feels the brand is being hurt would trigger a shit storm.
When are you guys going to push Tesla to the bin?
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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