Tesla Model X Easter Eggs

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Just came accross this 'Holiday Mode' easter egg thats programmed into the model X and thought it was brilliant, plays the music, flashes the lights and the rear doors open and flap about to the music.


Are there any other easter eggs out there on these cars?
 
There's this one where if you try and go too far it stops working for a long time

:D

I dunno. I'm on the fence. As much as I like it, it really does highlight how easy it is for someone possible tens of thousands of miles away to control the machine which carts my family and I around. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm also not sure about a grown up car effectively turning in to a toy. I mean, it's cool and all, but should a car be doing this?

I want to like it, but I'm undecided.
 
There's this one where if you try and go too far it stops working for a long time

Laughing like a mad man now ha!!!


I dunno. I'm on the fence. As much as I like it, it really does highlight how easy it is for someone possible tens of thousands of miles away to control the machine which carts my family and I around. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm also not sure about a grown up car effectively turning in to a toy. I mean, it's cool and all, but should a car be doing this?

I want to like it, but I'm undecided.

Tin foil hats aside it appeals to the raging geek in me and the P100D is ridiculously quick
 
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I think it's great. The motor industry needs an injection of fun. Everyone takes it all far too seriously.
 
I dunno. I'm on the fence. As much as I like it, it really does highlight how easy it is for someone possible tens of thousands of miles away to control the machine which carts my family and I around. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm also not sure about a grown up car effectively turning in to a toy. I mean, it's cool and all, but should a car be doing this?

I want to like it, but I'm undecided.

Exactly .

Luckily, so far, the only people to remotely hack a Tesla, were researchers and hackers that warned Tesla of the vulnerabilities.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-model-s-chinese-hack-remote-control-brakes

Question is how long until someone who is deliberately doing so maliciously, and to deliberately cause danger to driver and passengers develops a way to hack these vehicles.

It is most definitely a case of when will it happen, because it will, and people will be injured or be killed.
 
I wonder what impact the 'snoopers charter' will have on this technology.

Will there be a requirement for the UK variant to have backdoors or send tracking data?
 
I dunno. I'm on the fence. As much as I like it, it really does highlight how easy it is for someone possible tens of thousands of miles away to control the machine which carts my family and I around. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm also not sure about a grown up car effectively turning in to a toy. I mean, it's cool and all, but should a car be doing this?

I want to like it, but I'm undecided.

Why can't a car do this? It's just a load of metal and electronics, nothing "grown up" about it other than you have to be 17 to in control of it.
 
Exactly .

Luckily, so far, the only people to remotely hack a Tesla, were researchers and hackers that warned Tesla of the vulnerabilities.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-model-s-chinese-hack-remote-control-brakes

Question is how long until someone who is deliberately doing so maliciously, and to deliberately cause danger to driver and passengers develops a way to hack these vehicles.

It is most definitely a case of when will it happen, because it will, and people will be injured or be killed.

And it's never happened to any other manufacturer...

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/08...ake-control-vehicle-moving-at-high-speed.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygre...-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/#78120a805bf2
 

I think that just reinforces the point he's making, that there are security concerns relating to 'Smartcars' irrespective of who is making them.

I can't wait for safe, affordable safe driving cars but I suspect it will come a bit too late in my lifetime to get much benefit out of it.
 
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