Tesla owners locked out!

[Sam2084]

Tesla provides you with two “credit card sized” keycards that open the door and allow you to drive. Basically fobs.

I heard somebody post on FB or Reddit that Tesla home delivered (they simply drop off at your driveway and leave) his new car and he couldn’t unlock the door because of the server outage. You have to use the app to unlock the doors and then use the keycards inside to “PAAK” your phone after.

The key cards unlock the doors as well. He probably just didn’t know how to use them.

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[voxel]

The key cards unlock the doors as well. He probably just didn’t know how to use them.

No, Tesla leaves the keycards inside the car. Once you accept delivery you have full access to the car via app - so you can unlock the doors and get the keycards. The Tesla delivery person is long gone and owners have no interaction with them.

There are always negatives and positive to a centralized server system. The negative is the system goes down then Model S and X owners are screwed. The positive is Tesla HQ can remotely track and disable stole cars. Stealing a Tesla is often fruitless.

https://electrek.co/2018/08/10/tesla-stolen-vehicles-us-recovered-thieves/

 

[Jim D]

https://electrek.co/2021/11/19/tesla-suffers-nationwide-app-server-outage-owners-cant-connect-cars/

If only they had a backup passcode! ??

Yeah it was real nice of Ford to delete the backup passcode when you delete Paak.

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