I saw this article earlier:

Tesla ‘going bankrupt’ is endpoint of protests, says local organizer

In the spirit of right to repair, self-hosting, giving a second life to old devices, and limiting data collection by car companies:

  • What are some considerations?
  • Are there any projects worth keeping an eye on?

An example that came to mind was Valetudo, which is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. Some robot vacuums are easy to install this on, and others require more invasive modifications.

What I’ve found so far:

  • FreedomEV, a project that was presented at FOSSDEM 2019 but doesn’t have recent activity
  • TeslaMate, which is a popular and active selfhosted data logger for Teslas, but not necessarily a replacement for the software
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I’m talking ‘I disabled the awareness requirement of autopilot’ or ‘I fucked with the object detection and here goes my beta test yolo’ or ‘I added a button to disable all the lights so I can covertly street race’ or…

    • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Have you never heard of tunes?

      Any idiot can make substantial software changes to almost any modern car with easily available inexpensive hardware. Look up Cobb, ECUtek, openflashtablet, Hondata, etc

      You literally just plug it into a port and flash the software

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      11 days ago

      And? People can already do this with most cars.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        There’s a difference between ‘physical work required’ and ‘plug in this dongle and run the exe’ though