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How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2026
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Oh hooray another mandatory ID checkpoint! Don't resist, it's only for your safety and convenience, no other reasons!
/s
No /s needed mate. A car checking ID is laughable.
Why wouldn’t your management account for a car need to know whether you’re a licensed driver?
Because it's neither the cops nor fucking human??
Why would it be legal for you to drive a car without a license
Why should an App be even allowed to judge over legality?!
In cases of emergency (life threatening injuries, or to escape life threatening situations) you are allowed to drive whatever if you have to.
An app should be allowed to manage the legal exposure of permitting you to use it to do something illegal, if we’re going to permit apps to be sued because they didn’t stop someone from doing something illegal.
And driving without a licence can be legal, so an app shouldn't be allowed to restrict users.
Then pass a law that prevents them from doing so. You can’t have it both ways - you can’t hold them legally liable for illegal uses of their platform or technology and bar them from trying to stop illegal uses of their technology.
I’m not saying you should be required to show it; just that if you can, and do, they should be barred from applying juvenile controls to the account held by you, an adult.
Who is "they" in this scenario? Because the person who applied the controls in this story was the account holder.
Yes; he applied parental controls from his account to her account by misrepresenting to Tesla that she was a juvenile driving his car