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This is the one I really don't like. There was another recent story about a guy who bought a used Tesla with the AutoPilot feature, but since the new owner didn't personally pay for the feature - it was already on the car - they remotely removed it. To me that's the same as buying a used car with a nice set of factory optional wheels, and the dealerships sends a couple of guys with a floor jack over to your house in the middle of the night to to remove them because you didn't buy them personally. Extending that logic, they could repo the entire car. https://thenextweb.com/cars/2020/02/13/tesla-autopilot-surreptitiously-taken-now-given-back-alec-model-s/

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Originally Posted by john70t View Post
The company can remotely alter driveable range and disable features on the car you bought and have ownership of:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200208/16162043884/end-ownership-tesla-software-updates-giveth-tesla-software-updates-taketh-away.shtml
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