Tesla Update Makes Life Harder For Car Thieves

Tesla vehicles have been stolen before by car thieves who simply used a tablet or other devices in order to capture the keyfob signal, whose data was used to open the car – an M.O mostly seen in Europe.

If the owners leave their cars in passive mode and the car senses the fob key’s signal, anyone who has access to it can enter the vehicles without unlocking it. In Europe, the thieves also took to deactivating the mobile access of the owners, making it harder for them and the police to track down the cars.

Tesla decided to fight against the theft with its Model 3 update which might just help the police and the owners to track down the stolen vehicles, even if there is little the update can do to stop the actual theft in itself.

The update won’t allow the thieves to disable tracking as fast as they used to because that particular step will require a passcode, which means that they will have to get out of GPS range extremely fast in order not to be discovered.

Of course, the owners could avoid the problem altogether by deactivating the passive entry mode when the car is parked outside or in a public space.

The update also brought some improvements to the Summon feature, which allows the vehicle to drive itself out of narrow parking spaces.