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And it leads to absolutely ridiculous and predictable outcomes.

Tesla’s backend for fleet management at least used to be an absolute shit show that barely worked on the best day.

Apart from that, remember when (I think it was?) Troy Hunt published an article on how trivial it was to control some in-car features with nothing but a VIN and Internet connection?

There are certainly ways to do these things correctly. But until those measures are required by law and are -actually- implemented both consistently and sanely, it’ll be an intermittent bad time. The auto industry can barely get hardware security right, let alone electronic and digital security.