I saw this article earlier:

Tesla ‘going bankrupt’ is endpoint of protests, says local organizer

In the spirit of right to repair, self-hosting, giving a second life to old devices, and limiting data collection by car companies:

  • What are some considerations?
  • Are there any projects worth keeping an eye on?

An example that came to mind was Valetudo, which is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. Some robot vacuums are easy to install this on, and others require more invasive modifications.

What I’ve found so far:

  • FreedomEV, a project that was presented at FOSSDEM 2019 but doesn’t have recent activity
  • TeslaMate, which is a popular and active selfhosted data logger for Teslas, but not necessarily a replacement for the software
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Mixed feelings on this. Yeah, you buy it you should own it. But if your ability to fuck with a two-ton rolling death machine puts my ass at risk, we’ve got a fucking problem.

    • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I have some bad news for you - any random idiot with a driver’s license and a two-ton death machine already puts your ass at risk, all the time. We call it “traffic” because we’ve just gotten used to it

      • thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        It is not comparable, not even by far.

        Assuming your are not a psycho, to safely drive a car is orders of magnitude (in plural) easier than modifying the Sw in a safe and deterministic way.

        It is not only that bad people exists, it is about that making a small mistake can kill you

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        I’m talking ‘I disabled the awareness requirement of autopilot’ or ‘I fucked with the object detection and here goes my beta test yolo’ or ‘I added a button to disable all the lights so I can covertly street race’ or…

        • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Imagine thinking Tesla has all-that-much in place to prevent those things in a stock configuration. Full-stop, any self-driving is one of the first features anyone trying to disconnect their cars from Tesla servers would lose outright.

          • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            Ehh doubt, but I don’t have a tesla to verify. If I can sever the connection to the home base, I can fuck with it however I want, and their kill switch is useless. Maybe they implemented the kill switch in the modem or something, but again I can’t test. I highly doubt that when you’re road-tripping in bumfuck nowhere the ap disables itself…

            Anybody want to give me $40k? We can be besties.

          • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            There’s a difference between ‘physical work required’ and ‘plug in this dongle and run the exe’ though