Tesla Fights Performance Hacks Electric Cars

Tesla is starting to fight back against owners who are hacking their cars to unlock a performance boost that the automaker is itself selling as a software update.

Tesla fights performance hacks electric cars.

Tesla fights performance hacks for its electric cars tesla intel and others urge america s ftc to oppose qualcomm ruling tesla wins lawsuit against whistleblower accused of hacks. Electric vehicles have opened up a new front manufacturers like tesla can now create lower and higher performance versions of the exact same car using nothing but software. The automaker won its case against an ex employee who sought whistleblower protections and was accused of hacking tesla s gigafactory. Typically giving your car a performance boost means taking it to the mechanic or an auto shop.

Tesla wins lawsuit against whistleblower accused of hacks. Tesla doesn t sell a software upgrade from its model 3 dual motor to its model 3 performance but the vehicles are virtually the same when it comes to hardware without the performance package. With tesla s electric vehicles it can be as easy as installing a bit of software of course this has opened the door for third party companies like ingenext to design their own hacks that let drivers access features typically hidden behind a tesla paywall. Not too long ago tesla released a 2 000 acceleration boost option for the model 3 dual.

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