EV charging being disabled?

He added that the car's software was allegedly updated on an ongoing basis. I was thinking, theoretically, what is stopping either the car manufacturer disabling the charge process either completely or partially, yet alone any other functions such as being able to open the car door to get in?!!!!!!

Such is modern life. The smart phone itself might stop working if it's of Chinese origin and a certain US president gets his way - or indeed any number of other foreign (or even domestic) 'actors'. My wireless speaker system has lost functionality because the manufacturer decided on a controller upgrade and removed functions they considered underused on the platform I happened to use. Power station control systems could be hacked - losing power entire regions not just one car. Any number of cheap IP-connected video devices are readily hackable and could be used to make your local network unusable.


If it's any consolation even the old manual and paper systems were very open to abuse - from ID checks to polling stations to guards on doors to checking of signatures - but it very rarely was abused to any dangerous degree. Hopefully there will be a similar lack of balance between effort and reward so that people generally still won't bother causing too much trouble.


   - Andy.

He added that the car's software was allegedly updated on an ongoing basis. I was thinking, theoretically, what is stopping either the car manufacturer disabling the charge process either completely or partially, yet alone any other functions such as being able to open the car door to get in?!!!!!!

Such is modern life. The smart phone itself might stop working if it's of Chinese origin and a certain US president gets his way - or indeed any number of other foreign (or even domestic) 'actors'. My wireless speaker system has lost functionality because the manufacturer decided on a controller upgrade and removed functions they considered underused on the platform I happened to use. Power station control systems could be hacked - losing power entire regions not just one car. Any number of cheap IP-connected video devices are readily hackable and could be used to make your local network unusable.


If it's any consolation even the old manual and paper systems were very open to abuse - from ID checks to polling stations to guards on doors to checking of signatures - but it very rarely was abused to any dangerous degree. Hopefully there will be a similar lack of balance between effort and reward so that people generally still won't bother causing too much trouble.


   - Andy.