With the boycott for Teslas seemingly going strong I was wondering if anyone has successfully removed the proprietary software off any of the models or removed it from the Tesla network?
Considering that the cameras send data to other cars on the network to be processed (using the customers power instead of the company’s) this seems better than just reselling to me.
The main things are removing the cellular connection and disabling the connection back to the Tesla services. Back in the old days you could pull the SIM card, root the center and driver’s displays, setup firewall rules to block traffic to/from the Tesla servers, and disable the VPN.
This is more difficult with the newer models. You can still pull the SIM, but would need to get creative for root access since it is a continuous game of whack-a-mole between the root methods and patches.
And… what would be the point? To brick a perfect fine car?
The boycott isn’t “going strong”, there isn’t even a clear reason for any “boycott.”
People are still buying teslas. The only discouraging thing is all the idiot criminal vandals. Most tesla owners aren’t even worried. Most tesla owners don’t live in the same neighborhood as those who would vandalize.
there isn’t even a clear reason for any “boycott”
I know it’s a tough concept to grasp, but I was raised with the belief that you should punch Nazi’s in the face, not buy their shit.
https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/
Really though?
BMW, VW, KODAK, IBM, AP.
Being actually nazi sympathetic never stopped a good product.
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You seem to think I buy those products either, I don’t.
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There is a world of difference between the past actions of a company over 80 years ago vs the current, ongoing embrace of Nazi symbolism and ideals by a CEO who also happens to be trying to dismantle the country he lives in. You know there’s a difference, I know there’s a difference, you just don’t give a shit. You are a bad person.
Lol. There is a difference, but not the difference you think.
Why are so many democrats against the gutting of the federal government? Isnt this something that democrats want?
No that’s a Republican thing. Democrats (in theory) want the government to fund essentials like roads, school lunches for kids, social security and other such programs.
It’s the republican stance that such things should be left to the private sector and charity organizations
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I would vandalize this guys car no matter if it’s a tesla.
I bet you would
You speak well for having a dick in your mouth. it speaks to how experienced you are.
though, it is small and deformed…
The point is privacy, your political rant is irrelevant, changing software to a tesla will make the tesla still look like a tesla and OP wont solve the vandalism problem, this wont make tesla sell less car, if OP brick their car is none of your business.
I’ve seen a few classic cars retro fitted with Tesla batteries and engines from junkyard teslas. A common thread in that space is that you don’t get high speed charging. There weren’t really alternatives to super chargers at that time, so maybe they can use the other high speed chargers these days. Anyway, that’s tells me it’s possible, but that’s an extreme end of it. Just removing software probably requires a lot of specialized knowledge.
Ok since no one here is giving actual information, there was a guy on Rich Rebuilds channel a few years ago that had done a lot of work in this space. I think it was this video: https://youtu.be/o-7b1waoj9Q
Any way, at the time he had made a ton of progress on the hardware. I don’t have the mental energy right now to dig in to see how it’s gone, but feel free to do so and post back.