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Hmm it is good to highlight if the company can remotely disable the vehicle.
That means they could also remotely change the driving characteristics, as long as it had a data connection. Like, disabling the brakes.
This dude is shit and musk is shit but this is a universal worry for web connected vehicles.
If I recall correctly such tampering was suspected to even be involved in a journalist's death way back in 2013. However this is speculation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)