Can this be a safety issue? I’d rather not have a 4k pound hunk of metal flying at me by someone that just wanted to try something out in a cars firmware.
What's the difference between that and say, changing your brake rotors and brake pads? There's a level of danger there if it's not a professional doing it.
In either case the person doing the modification would be found at fault by police / insurance, but with software it isn't so clear cut - how do you know whether or not the car is hacked? Often, the collision will become a national news story, prompting Tesla to perform a multi-week investigation to see if anything in the car was modified, all while they've already lost because news media had already blamed Tesla.
