Dismantled Tesla Model S found in truck

&gt; always-on advanced GPS tracking feature<p>No thank you - oh my god, no thank you <i>very much</i>.<p>It&#x27;s a real shame that Tesla has wedded their beautiful drivetrain engineering to such a creepy, cell-phone-esque system of automatic software updates and GPS tracking and giant touchscreens; I&#x27;d like to like their cars, but I want absolutely none of that.

&gt; it’s not clear how the vehicle was stolen in the first place.<p>&gt; For owners, it’s important to make sure that your Tesla account is secured with a strong password and to keep your key fobs in a secure location at a safe distance from the vehicle when parked.<p>The insinuation here is that owners had weak passwords and&#x2F;or kept their keys in an insecure location at an unsafe distance from the vehicle. Another explanation could be that hacker-thieves found a way to access Tesla&#x27;s without keys and&#x2F;or passwords.

I would imagine the easiest way to steal a Tesla is to create a make-shift faraday cage in a truck bed and then disconnect the power.

I know someone who had their Tesla stolen in Belgium, never to be recovered. The car just vanished from the system, no connection to the network and the last known location was in front of their house.<p>I always wondered what thieves do with these vehicles though.

GPS and GSM signals can be easily jammed, and such devices don&#x27;t cost much in China.