Due to unplanned maintenance, hundreds of motorists have found themselves locked out of their cars. Only solution: wait
Technology is wonderful: it saves us time and hassle, making every single daily action much easier and more immediate. However, this is the case in 99% of cases: when something goes wrong or stops working, even the simplest actions such as turning on a light bulb or opening a car door can become incredibly complicated.
The owners of Tesla know something about it: in the last few hours, they are having more than a few problems getting into their cars. For several hours, in fact, the telematics infrastructure of Tesla in the United States is having problems and the app, which manages the opening and closing of the U.S. electric car and dozens of other functions, does not want to know how to work. The anger and frustration of the owners are flooding Twitter, where there are angry posts against the American company for not having warned its users.
Tesla app down: what’s happening
As reported also by the website Downdetector.com, the Tesla app is down for maintenance. As stated by some users, it would seem that some undefined back-up operations are in progress, operations on which, however, Tesla’s top management has not yet released official statements.
Nothing serious, if the app does not serve to remotely manage the vehicle and, in most cases, is used by users as a “digital copy” of the keys. It can therefore be used to open and close the doors and start the vehicle without the need to carry the original key. In short, a great convenience, but now that the service is down many people are locked out of their cars several miles away from home.
A chip under the skin to access the car?
A possible solution to this inconvenience could come from an experiment conducted by an American computer engineer who owns a Tesla 3. Amie DD, this is the name of the engineer, has had a chip implanted under the skin to open her car, thus obviating the problem of car keys, often forgotten at home or, in the worst case, lost. A solution a bit extreme, but that seems to work avoiding forever the possibility of being locked out of the car by mistake.