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Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident (www.nytimes.com)

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A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But, I think a capability that hasn't been fully revealed to us yet is the ability for manufacturers and (presumably intelligence/law enforcement agencies) full remote takeover of some of these vehicles.

Assuming it is a Tesla, if they do, it's likely only implemented in a targeted OTA update package. Tesla's regular firmware packages are heavily scrutinized by white-hats for datamining and jailbreaking purposes, and it would be far too risky to leave something like that accessible to people with reverse engineering experience.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I did not know that stuff was available to the public to scrutinize. Interesting.