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Yeah, when investigative reporters drive themselves into trees at insanely high speeds that's not some random coincidence. Anyone who is a threat to the state should really think twice before driving anything post 1997 probably, but anything after the early to mid 2000s gets pretty bad 😬
Maybe.
Most engine control system tampering will error and cause various limp modes.
Keeping systems from entering limp modes means physically modifying hard coded, surface mount components in many cases.
I'm not saying it's impossible, just extremely unlikely outside determined nation-state level actors.
You don't think all of these systems were developed with govt backdoors as part of the design from the beginning?