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💯 I've been saying this for quite a while. If Elon can ban your Twitter account then he can ban you from your car.
Y'all cars including gas cars can be turned off remotely with the right hardware installed.
your brain can be turned off remotely with the right hardware installed.
the difference is that you can uninstall it
electric car is not your car
No you can't. It's built into the engine management system if all ICE cars.
No car made this century works without a computer controlled engine management system. And that computer can be controlled remotely via the cars OBD port and a WiFi dongle.
If you uninstall it, your car won't start.
It's only the law, and the need for a warrant that prevents law enforcement from abusing this.
Electric or petrol, doesn't matter. Once computers were added to cars, owners lost their transportation independence.
When is someone gonna make an open sourced moded EV? EVs don't need to be always connected to a server. Manufactures just keep taking the opportunity to reduce consumer freedom when they introduce new devices.