Tesla's Mobile App Interface Experiences Outage Over The Weekend

Tesla’s mobile application is becoming an increasingly important part of the Tesla ownership experience and consequently, it can be a problem when the service is down, which happened last weekend.

To Tesla’s credit, the downtime has been somewhat limited to only rare occasions, but when there’s an issue, it is often for a prolonged period of time.

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TomM - 4/23/2018 12:05:11 PM

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Actual Physical problems with the network are only ONE problem - that the stream of information could be HACKED is far more problematic. Imagine a hacker taking control of your car from a remote location - and smashing it into a Concrete Wall for instance.

So far - the over the air software system has not been designed that cannot be Hacked - and the more security features they add - the more the Hackers rise to the cause. YOu could have a car that uses computers that cannot be accessed "over the air" - to prevent this - and most cars are that way today. But in the age of predicted Autonomous cars - this is likely to be an even MORE major concern. IF hackers in Russia can hack into voting systems in the USA - they can Hack into a car here too. Or maybe a HUGE group of cars. Imagine a terrorist group have that capability.

Of course Congress could pass a law against it - that would "work" - surely - NOT.