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2 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Mar 2023

Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla

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Re: Making More than 80 Million Unique Physical Keys

So you've carefully done what you can to make it so that each car can have a unique physical key.

Then someone comes along with a hammer, screwdriver and maybe some vice grips and if you don't have a chipped key anyway then they're off with your vehicle.

I'm old as well, and I had a software engineers distrust of electronics. But I had someone tried to steal my 2000 Ranger and in seconds they were able to bypass the key system by mutilating it, but because it was one of the first Rangers with a security key they didn't get the truck, turning the ignition got them nothing.

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Keys don't work for cars

Stealing any car made before chipped security keys is trivial. Google the problems with kia boyz.

Once you realize that the key does basically nothing and its the chip and the ignition interlock preventing theft, then you can remove the needless key.

It was also possible to open other people's cars with your car key in the world before chips. That should actually be possible to eliminate with electronic key fobs, but trust Tesla to screw that up.

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