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incomingpain
Hard to read but comply with cease and desist? Failed update shutting of the truck?

Shocking video telling everyone not to buy Tesla.

JohnFen
A vehicle being able to be remotely disabled is a big red flag all by itself.

A company that will disable your vehicle while it's in operation because they're mad at you is a company that nobody should do business with under any circumstances whatsoever. (I'm assuming the story is true for the sake of argument. I don't know that it is.)

persolb
Everything about this looks fake, and Tesla confirmed it wasn’t real. Not finding great sources right now: https://www.carscoops.com/2025/08/rapper-fakes-video-claimin...

I would be amazed if there are not interlocks to prevent an update while in drive. On normal updates there is definitely an interlock, plus a timer, but theoretically it is possible.

gurumeditations
They could’ve killed multiple people with that, everyone who enabled that needs to be in prison now.
juliangmp
I'd say something like how this shouldn't be legal (and it might not be, idk I'm neither American nor a lawyer)... but my sympathy is quite limited since you made the conscious decision to buy a damn Tesla.
pengaru
That's a clever way to get popular, pathetic that the reality of the state of everything makes it so plausible.
impossiblefork
Here in Sweden programming a feature allowing this or participating in the activation of this feature would be a crime called allmänfarlig vårdslöshet. The crime would be regarded as serious, due to the detailed planning, and would lead to everyone involved going to prison for two years.

Why haven't the people who did this been arrested? Surely the US too, has laws against public endagerment?

josephcsible
This was faked. He made a video of the Cybertruck UI with his message over it and played it in fullscreen with the car parked but fully operable.