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Jason Hughes

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Jason Hughes

@wk057

VP, Development and Engineering @ocean_mining Head Tinkerer. (I hack Teslas, among other things.) youtube.com/@wk057

Joined March 2015

Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Tesla really fires me up sometimes.😡🧵 I have a customer who's the ~3rd owner of a 2013 Model S 60. At some point years ago the battery pack was swapped under warranty with a 90 pack. It wasn't software limited. It was effectively made into a 90 by Tesla. Years went by. (1/*)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Honestly, this is pretty f*cked up. Guy had no way to know that this was going to be done by Tesla. They basically robbed him & are demanding a ransom to get back what he had before. That's just wrong. @Tesla @elonmusk - Do better on this and make it right. DM for VIN. (7/7)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 26, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Just to be clear, IMO if Tesla swaps a battery under warranty with a larger one because they don't have the right one, and they don't software lock it before it leaves the service center... well, that's on them. They can't play takebacksies years later, remotely, with no warning.
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Furious, he demands they restore it back to the way it was, and they refuse. "We can unlock it for $4,500." 😡 This guy bought a car, & years later Tesla reaches in remotely with no warning and literally cuts his usable range by a third! (I confirmed story w/logs) (4/*)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Apr 29, 2025
Bitcoin Core developers are about to merge a change that turns Bitcoin into a worthless altcoin, and no one seems to care to do anything about it. I've voiced objections, lost sleep over this, and despite clear community rejection of the PR it's moving.
Remove arbitrary limits on OP_Return (datacarrier) outputs by petertodd · Pull Request #32359 ·...
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Jason Hughes
@wk057
Nov 13, 2022
I want to drive home how impossible "Sudden Unintended Acceleration" is in a Tesla, why any issue with the autopilot/FSD system can't do this, and a few other myths and technical aspects of this whole thing in a thread.🧵 (Which ended up longer than expected.)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Aug 9, 2022
Replying to @TaylorOgan
If I'm pressing the accelerator, the car should do what I tell it to do no matter what. It shouldn't matter if there's 100 children in front of the car, it shouldn't override the driver's manual input under any circumstances. On AP/FSD/Cruise/etc that's different. So, BS test.
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Imagine walking out to your car to find it's now 1/3rd as good as it was 15 minutes ago, and Tesla making it out like this is a good thing! They fixed the problem! What do you do? He tried for a while with them with no progress. (5/*)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Later on, while the car is parked in his driveway, Tesla calls him to tell him that they found and fixed a configuration mistake with his car. They remotely software locked the car to be a 60 again, despite having been a 90 for years. He now has ~80 miles less range. (3/*)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 26, 2022
Replying to @wk057
To be extra clear, I don't post this stuff because I hate Tesla or anything. In fact, it's just the opposite. I hate seeing Tesla derail themselves with this kind of nonsense.
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 26, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Just to add, the guy is way more of a good sport about this than I would be. He's joking that this must be him needing to do his part for Musk's finance plan to buy Twitter. $4500 is about 0.00001% of the Twitter sale. 🤣
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @wk057
I try to help, but without completely disconnecting the car from Tesla, when I change it back to a 90 their "teleforce" bot reaches in remotely and flips it back to a 60 within moments. There's hacky ways around this, but none are ideal. Tesla won't help him at all. (6/*)
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 26, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Wow, hi everyone. 👋🏻 Some confusion in replies. No one hacked the car. Hard+software changes were 100% Tesla. Tesla made a *mistake* years ago when they didn't lock it to a 60. The issue is with them attempting to correct _their mistake_, remotely, years + two owners later.
Jason Hughes
@wk057
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @wk057
Car is sold twice since, and now has a new owner (my customer). It says 90, badged 90, has 90-type range. He has the car for a few months, goes in and does a paid MCU2 upgrade at Tesla after the 3G shutdown. All goes well. The upgrade is done, car is working fine. (2/*)