Fortunately it did not implement the function. On Instagram, a user published a video inside his cybertruck, a vehicle model sold by Tesla with a very polygonal appearance. Your vehicle is at the end on a road and then we can read on the screen on the board: “Update failure, see your distributor.”
The car owner then accused the automotive company of having voluntarily stopped his vehicle remotely. The discovery of this potential characteristic caused the virality of the video.
A letter from Tesla
According to his first video, the man fed his story with the publication of a letter visibly written by Tesla, indicating that his vehicle was remotely disabled by the company itself.
“We represent Tesla and you write to formally send the illegal use of Tesla’s intellectual property in the musical content published in your name. Specifically, this refers to its use of the name and image of Cybertruck de Tesla in one or more songs, including, among others, the music with the right: ‘Cybertruck'”, is written in this letter.
It turns out that the user in question is in fact an amateur rapper, with some titles in his credit, including a title … “Cybertruck”.
“The fact that they have the possibility to deactivate all vehicles remotely is crazy and dangerous,” said the user. In comments, many Internet users believe in the history of this owner …
False videos
But be it the alert screen or the letter, everything is wrong. Tesla defended himself immediately in the comments of the first publication on Instagram, as well as in X: “This is false, this is not our screen. Tesla does not deactivate vehicles remotely.”
Several details betray the veracity of these contents, as shown in the edge analysis. First, the alert message is very different from the notifications generally received in a Tesla car.
In addition, as a user in X Notes, Tesla does not sell their vehicles through a network of dealers, but with direct points of sale (called “Tesla Stores”). Some Internet users suspect that it is just a video released on the board.
As for the letter, this signed by Dinna Eskin, as legal director of the Tesla Group. However, it turns out that the employee no longer occupies this position, but that of the Vice President of Legal Affairs. Users also point out that the identification number of the vehicle (wine) indicated in the letter does not belong to any existing vehicle (including the site of the United States Ministry of Transportation).
In any case, this is a successful communication coup for this rapper, which will have been able to take advantage of the popularity of its publication. More than 130,000 people went to see their musical clip “Cybertruck” on YouTube, while the videos of their channel usually have a few hundred views.
With respect to Cybertruck accusations blocked remotely, they are not new, but they could never be tested. In 2024, the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, accused Elon Musk of having disabled his cybertruck, but without concrete evidence. The Chechen, the inveterate support of Vladimir Putin, had noted that he had used his Tesla vehicle on the Ukrainian front.
Source: BFM TV
