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Tesla Disables Hacked FSD as Over 100,000 Cars Use Illegal Mods

Tesla is cracking down hard on owners who used FSD enabler hacks to illegally unlock Full Self-Driving in countries where the software remains unapproved. The company has begun remotely disabling FSD capabilities on affected vehicles across Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, and the UK, amongst other countries. While every Tesla ships with the FSD hardware baked in, software activation remains tied to regulatory approval. Outside the United States, FSD has not received full approval in most markets due to varying safety standards, data privacy requirements, and local traffic laws.That gap created an opportunity. Hackers in Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere began distributing modules that plug into the CAN bus to geo-spoof the car, and silently unlock the full FSD suite, including …


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Author: Simran Rastogi

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