content: There was zero defect or abnormal behavior involved. This was just a one in a billion bad luck circumstance paired against a driver who was not paying attention. But as an aside, I think people don't really understand all that would go into hacking one of these vehicles. Teslas are not, by default, remotely operable. The way the demonstrated hack managed to remotely operate the car was by creating and uploading entirely new firmware. How would they get somebody to install their new firmware? Their proposed method somebody logging into a specific hotspot, and then having them navigating to a specific website with a specific browser susceptible to a specific exploit and then remaining oblivious as their firmware was rewritten and rebooted. And even if this hack was ever carried out there would be a major digital trail, 'black box' data, and more. Incidentally Tesla patched even against this esoteric vulnerability by rolling out something they had already been working on - now the vehicles will only operate signed firmwares meaning even these exploits, which in all reality pose 0 "real" threat, are no longer possible.