You don’t need the internet. You can open and start the car using bluetooth to your phone (doesn’t require cell service on either device), using the key card, or the key fob. There are three different options to drive the car, all of which don’t require internet. I think the problem is the user here. 

The older Teslas don’t have a physical key, they use an RFID backup system when the keyfob has a dead battery. If you read the article, that system was able to unlock the car but for some reason it wasn’t able to start the car (maybe the reader in his car was broken or it could be his fob had other physical damage).…

Yeah, he was using the backup system, but for some reason it wasn’t starting the car (he was able to get into the car however). The second backup (LTE car start) didn’t work because his car was in the parking garage.

100 Billion anti-tesla articles and 10 years of hate, and Jalopnik articles still suck :D

daily quota of tesla bashing... CHECK!

Worst comment on here by far. 

I’m in Europe right now during the heatwaves... between the temps and the lack of AC... I’ll sit in a garbage can full of water if the opportunity presents itself.

Just wait until Steve finds out about shipping container homes, he’s going to freak that people are paying to live in “dumpsters”.

Cool that works for like a few months. They will update all laws to “person outside the womb” and these idiotic exercises will be over. 

Having been in a Smart car with a 6'4" man I can attest that felt full occupancy. And no, that’s not a euphemism.

show Texas lawmakers the unforeseen consequences of their actions

There should be a basic legal principle that the fines for a crime must be equal to or greater than the gains one makes by committing the crime.

He made 10 million.  Pays two and a half mil in fines. Six months of home confinement, and another 150K on top.   He’s still 8 mil ahead. THIS is why things are the way they are.  Steal a “billion”, pay a pittance of a fine, Rinse and repeat, and repeat.  Make these guys destitute, take the house, car, food on the…

They are idiots. They aren’t smart enough to figure out what they stand for. They have to be told what to be mad about.

This mutant probably thinks he’s part of some sort of master race, too. That’s the scariest part of all. 

Grift.

What do they even stand for? What are they trying to accomplish?

I think that we’re missing some “key” (pun intended) information here. I believe that the phone has to be “cloned” as there are certain characteristics like IMEI, MAC address, heck even the Tesla App that needs to be signed into.
I’m not saying that there isn’t a BLE vulnerability - I think there’s a lot more…

Your sister is so far out on the edge of edge cases it’s not even funny. Most anti-vaxxers are, in fact, just morons.

You are speaking of people who are, realistically, around 1 percent of the population. I have no qualms if people with histories of serious vaccine allergies do not get the covid vaccine. That said, because of the way the covid vaccine works, even in a study of high-risk recipients only 0.2% of vaccines administered…