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[UPDATE: fake] They made his car "cease & desist" (lemmus.org)
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UPDATE: Busted by the Verge, sorry everybody. Fuck.

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Article: Tesla Allegedly Disables Rapper’s Cybertruck After Song Critique.

Threads post from, brittainforsenate: Detroit Rapper Big Huey made a song about the Cybertruck. Tesla heard it and deactivated his vehicle, stranding him on the side of the road.
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[+] -16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

This has been standard in every car made after 2003

If your car is newer than that, the police can request the car company disable your engine.

It's fucked up and evil, but it isn't new, just the first time it's been blatantly abused

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think you're off by a decade there. My 2010 car has no mobile connectivity.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Cars having satellite gps has been standard for most manufacturers since the early 2000s

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Not suitable for this.

    GPS is a purely one-way method, with the satellites transmitting only their position and a timecode, leaving the receiver to do the triangulation. And if they did send any sort of custom data packets over that method, it would just confuse the crap out of every other receiver across most of the world, causing potential device crashes, drawing attention from ham operators worldwide...

    And also massively pissing off the US military. Turns out a lot of their equipment and munitions make use of GPS and INS, so fucking with those satellites is a no-go.

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