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Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs

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Re: Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs

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I shiver a little bit, picturing a future in which automotive software is released early, released often .

"Your Tesla needs to update. Please close all doors and windows, then turn the car off and on again."

I was thinking more like

Your Tesla is updating. Please do not press the gas pedal or brake pedal. 17%

Right in the middle of I-280, of course.

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Hats off to Tesla, right now they are doing for cars what Apple did for smartphones in 2007. Under closer examination concept is simple - work closer with customers. In Tesla's case this means monitor working parameters of all the cars they sold. This allows them to identify, diagnose, and solve quite a few problems extremely quickly.

That actually sounds a lot more like Microsoft - Windows and other products are sounding massive amount of telemetry data back to Redmond

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Its only a matter of time before over the air car hijacking becomes a real problem. I think I prefer my car not be wirelessly susceptible.

Yeah, if you can program a car to not catch fire, it should also be possible to program a car to catch fire.

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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post #12

Hats off to Tesla, right now they are doing for cars what Apple did for smartphones in 2007. Under closer examination concept is simple - work closer with customers. In Tesla's case this means monitor working parameters of all the cars they sold. This allows them to identify, diagnose, and solve quite a few problems extremely quickly.

That actually sounds a lot more like Microsoft - Windows and other products are sounding massive amount of telemetry data back to Redmond

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post #12

Hats off to Tesla, right now they are doing for cars what Apple did for smartphones in 2007. Under closer examination concept is simple - work closer with customers. In Tesla's case this means monitor working parameters of all the cars they sold. This allows them to identify, diagnose, and solve quite a few problems extremely quickly.

That actually sounds a lot more like Microsoft - Windows and other products are sounding massive amount of telemetry data back to Redmond

Microsoft is huge software corporation that dominates operating system/productivity space. Tesla is a fairly small automotive company that is really innovative. I think that comparison is actually extremely flattering to Tesla.

Anyways your point is correct, however it is one thing to get telemetry from your own operating system that connected to the internet, and entirely different beast to bring that kind of technology to consumer automobiles.

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post #12

Hats off to Tesla, right now they are doing for cars what Apple did for smartphones in 2007. Under closer examination concept is simple - work closer with customers. In Tesla's case this means monitor working parameters of all the cars they sold. This allows them to identify, diagnose, and solve quite a few problems extremely quickly.

That actually sounds a lot more like Microsoft - Windows and other products are sounding massive amount of telemetry data back to Redmond

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Hats off to Tesla, right now they are doing for cars what Apple did for smartphones in 2007. Under closer examination concept is simple - work closer with customers. In Tesla's case this means monitor working parameters of all the cars they sold. This allows them to identify, diagnose, and solve quite a few problems extremely quickly.

That actually sounds a lot more like Microsoft - Windows and other products are sounding massive amount of telemetry data back to Redmond

And that's unlike the iPhone in some way?
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