Article 5VMMK Tesla has a new feature that will disable your seat controls if you keep messing with them

Tesla has a new feature that will disable your seat controls if you keep messing with them

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Andrew J. Hawkins
from The Verge on (#5VMMK)
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Tesla's new vehicles rolling out of the factory will include a bizarre feature designed to prevent abuse of the seat adjustment controls. The new seats will track and measure the amount of adjustments users make and will disable the controls if they detect excessive" changes. The feature was first identified by @greentheonly, an anonymous hacker and researcher, and subsequently covered by Jalopnik.

Tesla recently began installing new seat motors in some of its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, in addition to the seats it gets from China's Yangfeng and the ones it makes in-house. The new motors come from Brose, a 110-year-old German company that supplies a lot of components to the automotive industry.

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