I'm smelling bull on this story

[Jonnymack74]

Apologies for the daily fail link, but how excavation could this happen on a tesla without him knowing? I smell lies

Historian Dan Jones says his Tesla is used as a 'hotel' by an intruder

TV historian Dan Jones' Tesla Model 3 was repeatedly broken into while it was parked overnight on his drive and used as a 'four star hotel' to relax and watch Netflix

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Roy B]

Someone knows the credentials to his Tesla account?

 

[Godsense]

I saw that earlier and it did make me laugh. Unless he dropped a key card and never noticed

 

[NewbieT]

Someone that can get into the car but can’t drive it. Does he actually lock it? Is his Bluetooth in range? Tesla’s logs would give plenty of answers.

Very strange how no body else in the UK has reported this phenomenon!

 

[morrishey]

What are the chances that Mr Jones has a new TV series coming out soon?

 

[Jason71]

What he needs to do is. Take all of his stuff out of the Car. Get in it. Drive it to the nearest service centre. Tell them he is leaving it there because he is too dumb to own a Tesla then get a Taxi home. Problem solved.

 

[Rooster6655]

So he never caught anybody using his car and instead made many assumptions and got featured in the newspaper. I’ve read some rubbish stories but this guy ( no idea who he is) is completely stupid if he can’t figure out what’s going on with his car, I suspect if true someone in his family is pranking him. What a waste of an article

 

[Overworked]

I saw this yesterday and thought that Sentry mode would have resolved this by day 2

 

[Snowy77]

There's a level of defecation to this story for sure. Why is he so blasé? I'm sceptical. tesla pay GOOD dividends to people to prove they can hack a car, which leads me to believe this person wasn't hacking their way in. Either the car was permanently unlocked somehow, perhaps as others have said bluetooth / keyless? OR this mystery person had a keycard somehow. No idea.

Wouldn't happen at our place. The proximity alarms would be going nuts, and CCTV would capture the whole thing. You'd think some one like this would have some kind of basic home security.

Something aint right here!

 

[randompixel]

Hang on guys, it's printed in the Daily Mail. It must be true...

 

[GRiLLA]

It's clearly his daughter sneaking out to shoot up and watch shows he doesn't approve of.

Anyway, it is perhaps a useful reminder that if you haven't make sure you enable 2FA on your Tesla account, otherwise you too could also have a french speaking, period-drama binging, account hacking vagrant move in.

 

[M3noob]

Obv

I saw this yesterday and thought that Sentry mode would have resolved this by day 2

Obvious RTFM failure

 

[SpareHeadOne]

Doesn't pass the sniff test, unless he has it set to stay unlocked when at home - but why would you do that if it's on the drive?

Frankly, if he does have it set to stay unlocked then all he's announcing is his stupidity. Tesla have taken a pretty dim view of these sorts of allegations in the past, he might be about to find himself on the end of some litigation.

 

[Irata]

Just going along with this for a second.

I suspect Mr Jones has left the "exclude at home" ticked on walkaway lock.

But also, he is pushing his latest book on his Twitter account. I'm sure no coincidence.

Didn't someone once fake a story about eating a hamster for publicity.

 

[Envchem]

What a load of crap. Even if he never locks his car on the drive; how long is this drive? Is the car permanently out of sight?
Publicity stunt all the way.

 

[yessuz]

I was actually thinking the other thing - if I use phone as a key - what is the distance between the car and the phone when it unlocks?

My drive very close to the side of house on the kitchen side (new build house). Would it trigger unlock if I was in the kitchen with my phone??

 

[PaulMD]

You have to be pretty close - my lounge faces the drive and I sit about 3m away from drivers door and can't get in if I leave the phone on sofa.

Edit: A quick unscientific test and it unlocks around 1m away from drivers door. (within same height too I think)

 

[AutomaticMan]

You have to be pretty close - my lounge faces the drive and I sit about 3m away from drivers door and can't get in if I leave the phone on sofa.

That's good to know, because I was wondering about this as well! What about the automatic locking, how far do you have to walk away for that to trigger? A bit worried that my living room isn't far enough away from where the car is parked for the car to lock itself automatically when I go into my house.

 

[PaulMD]

same - about 1m away it locks.

 

[TJ63]

You could always set the reminder for when the car has been left unlocked for 10 minutes, then it would tell you via the app.