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Mobile app while being serviced
- Thread starter Todd Burch
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Francis Lau
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My MS was being serviced at the Seattle center today and remote mobile access was not turned off. I was able to track when the car was being driven back to me which was nice since I was out and was able to get home to meet them. In fact, I was home first and I walked out to see the car arrive.
sfriedrich
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Hey, kind of another tack on this. Is it even possible for a Model S to be stolen (and stay stolen)? All the way from the way the key fob works to the telemetry. Can this car really be stolen?
Load it on a flatbed, put it inside a metal chop-shop building. Basically the Model S can't be stolen by a casual joyrider. A professional thief with equipment could steal it. However, for quite a while there won't be any market for chop-shop parts. Maybe never as all the service is factory supplied. It's not a concern to me.
mknox
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A former work associate had his OnStar equipped car stolen this way a few years ago. When OnStar couldn't find it, the police told him it was likely in a steel cargo container on its way to some foreign country.
When an owner looses his/her fob or locks it in the trunk there must be a way for a Tesla service center to both gain entry and unlock the car. If there is a means to do this there is always the potential of leaking insider information to professional criminals. That said it is undoubtedly more difficult to steal a Model S. When more are on the road there will be a greater motive to pursue stealing the car and canabalizing it for a black market.
Larry
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