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Tesla Could Be Planning to Support Apple Car Keys
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Well I agree, but I find that customers rarely care about the reason behind a good change, just that it's a good change at the end of the day. Attracting more buyers tends to actually be the reason for giving customers a better experience in any business.
Because of the wall that safeguard Tesla from Chinese competitors. Tesla doesn’t have to beg you guys.
Because Americans don't buy electric cars, but they're very popular in China and Tesla needs to fish where the fish are.
25 Toyota Crown Platinum here and the digital key sucks ass. It’s so inconsistent and unreliable! Even Toyota says to carry the key fob with you at all times as a backup, that’s pretty telling. It’s not my phone either as I was using a 16 PM and now 17 PM.
Yeah, no.
I was involved in the Tesla fire investigation via Transport Canada of the car that caught fire in North Vancouver and the driver had to kick the window out because the electric locks/windows failed and he couldn’t get the door open. In a panic situation people aren’t going to think about where the “emergency release” is located and will instinctively look for a pull handle.
You also conveniently left out any mention of where the rear handle release is. I wonder why? Maybe because it’s in an absolutely horrible location and requires removing trim to first access? I bet kids in the rear seat are going to have no trouble figuring that out. 🙄
On a side note, this vehicle fire was caused by a 12V module under the dash. The HV battery never caught fire. Yet I still see posts using the pics/video of this incident to claim Tesla batteries catch fire/explode.
Well statistically EV fires are much less likely to happen than ICE fires. Also lookup the mach e recall of unable to exit the vehicle if the power fails. Stuff happens and manufacturers fix things. Ask ford about the ignition issues on the explorer.
He changed the mission of Telsa last week. Sustainability is no longer part of the mission.
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Great if it is supported and hopefully it will happen soon! Very useful and convenient to have it.
More people have already died in faulty teslas than died because of the pinto’s faulty gas tank.
I’ve been using Tesla for around 6 years now and honestly the Tesla UI is so good I’d hate to go back to CarPlay personally.
maybe you should do it first. here's some help
the 2024FY total revenue is about $100B. so definitely not even near to the mentioned 100s of billions.
bmw, which has comparable car sales to tesla had an annual total revenue of EUR 142B, so about 1.5x as much as the "totally not a car company"
https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/tsla/revenue/
I didn’t claim to know anything about this. I asked a question.Yes exactly. With most cars you have turn off the system settings that allow the key fob to function. If at a theoretical level a Bluetooth relay attack bothers you:
1. Put on pin to drive
2. Use the Tesla card instead of Bluetooth.
It’s only minimal convenience lost as your driver profile is still saved on the cloud. And the Tesla app still function properly.
At any rate how many teslas have been stolen using a relay attack with pin to drive enabled? I’ll wait patiently for an answer.
The Hardest Cars to Steal and Why Thieves Avoid Them
Some cars are harder to steal due to advanced security, GPS tracking, and low resale appeal. Thieves often avoid models like Tesla, BMW, and Subaru.goodcar.com
If the Apple key is more secure, and means you avoid entering a pin every time you want to start the car, I’d say that’s a worthy addition. I don’t understand why people think they are losing something here.
