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Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features

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Gait detection renders any of this obsolute sadly.

If you're willing to go to the lengths of adversarial fashion, you're probably also willing to walk around with a stone in your shoe, or in high heels.

Or dance like you've never danced before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46cX0AjzT4

Re: Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features

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Still, there are only 2 options: 1. This scenario makes the car cheaper for the poorer customers, so they benefit from it. Or at least, it doesn't increase the price, so they get the added benefits of being able to upgrade their car more easily and cheaply than going to back to the shop to install the extra hardware. 2. Or, this situation makes the car more expensive for the poorer customers, but since they are much…

>1. This scenario makes the car cheaper for the poorer customers, so they benefit from it. Pardon my ignorance, but if the cost of the hardware is already baked into the cost of the cheapest options, which means they are paying for all of the hardware they have in their cars, including the hardware they can't use, how do they benefit? Cost, in that situation, is determined simply by the need to assemble efficiently.…

For 1, pricing in these scenarios assumes a portfolio effect on the total cost of production for all units sold. Premium features are built into every car, which enables customers to enable them at a later date, but the cost isn’t passed on. Instead the premium feature is marked up to cover costs plus profit for all cars sold with that build. As mentioned elsewhere there are mass production efficiencies involved as well, reducing the unit cost for all cars as there aren’t N variants being built but a single mass production line that’s invariant. The residual costs are covered by the minority who buy the premium features for every unit, enabled or not, and it’s priced that way. This translates into overall cheaper cars for people without the feature enabled, and cars with a better resale value because those features can be still enabled in a secondary market sale. It also translates into cheaper cars for the premium car purchaser as well even though they subsidize the feature build in all cars enabled or not.
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