I saw this article earlier:

Tesla ‘going bankrupt’ is endpoint of protests, says local organizer

In the spirit of right to repair, self-hosting, giving a second life to old devices, and limiting data collection by car companies:

  • What are some considerations?
  • Are there any projects worth keeping an eye on?

An example that came to mind was Valetudo, which is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. Some robot vacuums are easy to install this on, and others require more invasive modifications.

What I’ve found so far:

  • FreedomEV, a project that was presented at FOSSDEM 2019 but doesn’t have recent activity
  • TeslaMate, which is a popular and active selfhosted data logger for Teslas, but not necessarily a replacement for the software
  • bigDotteeAEnglish
    87·
    2 days ago

    Assuming that Tesla goes bankrupt, actually shuts down forever, and shuts its servers down…

    At a minimum someone would have to find out where the software sends and receives data from. Then you’d have to reverse engineer the software to control the vehicles.

    Then you’d have to reprogram the software to send to your C&C server. I don’t think it would really take all that much to host that… it’s getting there that’s difficult.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      You’d likely need all kinds of cryptographic keys to get anywhere with that. Tesla is unlikely to ever publish those, even if they go bankrupt.

      • kabi@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        On the upside: if you mod your car to get around all that, you’ll probably be able to emulate old consoles on it and play pokemon games while driving.

          • dutchkimble@lemy.lolEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Pretty sure someone would have already done it. Anything with a screen and some sort of computer behind it is low hanging fruit for doom. It’s shit like running it on a calculator using potatoes that raises the bar!

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Yeah it’d be a LOT of constant wireshark and reverse engineering to figure out every API it calls. Then probably something in the middle to sit on the host, need to figure out https certs since you’d be spoofing the host, and of course making sure you get the responses absolutely correct.

      Not impossible, but it’s not trivial anymore either.

    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      191·
      2 days ago

      If I had a Tesla and someone smart enough to hack into I wouldn’t doubt I could probably figure out how they build their dashboards and reverse engineer them, they’re most likely browser based or qt or something like it. It’d be too costly to do it in anything else and Id bet many spacex dashes are the same tech. But I ain’t rich enough to get one of those things so someone else has to. There’s only so many ways to draw pixels on a screen in the name of profit