I know there is always the balance between fault tolerance, which is a highly valued good for a car, and complying with specs and how things "should be".<p>Certainly, requesting DHCP and re-authenticating with a Wi-Fi router is nothing you should do - in particular if your unencrypted HTTP request to Akamai is 404'ing. I wonder what is supposed to be returned there.<p>Overall it seems to me that this whole system was rushed and the never touch again since it is kinda working.
Crazy that he happens upon the SSID string which turned out to be randomly generated.<p>Very interesting about the auto charging. I can imagine the probe request is to connect to the charger to allow it to be completely automated.
The bit about autonomous charging in the end is interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla were working with the company mentioned to "standardize" some kind of automatic charging, and trying to avoid another Chademo/CCS/NACS mess.
As expected of a Musk-ism, it's a bunch of sloppy applications spewing garbage constantly to the network, be it your wifi home network or cellular on the road. About what I'd expect of an app-enabled Chinese sex toy, not a $100k car.