So, here’s a solution that will likely work but I’m just extrapolating based on auto industry stuffs. If the ads are driven by SiriusXM, they’re likely coming over the satellite radio. The shark fin on top has several antennae in it, including the XM antenna, which is on a specific frequency band and antenna type. Find the wiring harness for the shark fin, trace the SiriusXM cable, unplug or snip it. You’ll lose XM, but, honestly, based on the garbage I hear on a lifetime subscription radio these days, I don’t understand why anyone pays for it, except for living in or traveling through remote areas with frequency and wanting live background noise.

Chances are it’s possible they’d also try and load the ads via a paired Bluetooth phone for Internet, (maybe) if that’s the case it’s a little more difficult. Probably impossible on iPhone, but on Android may allow one to disable the act of shuttling data to the car stereo via Bluetooth. If Stellantis uses an app to proxy data to the car stereo, deleting the app on the phone would break it.

“I have a problem, you need to add a feature flag to my account that wasn’t properly provisoned.”

“OK, let’s check, are you on wifi? Have cellular signal?”

“Yes, irrelevant, I need this feature code added to the account. You’ll be off this call in 30 seconds and your KPMs will look amazing.”

“OK, first, let’s try resetting your network settings.”

“You realize doing that erases all saved wifi networks, VPNs, Bluetooth pairings, and a bunch of other stuff that will take me hours to fix, and has nothing to do with my problem?”

“OK, continuing on… let me send a network refresh.”

“Just look up the feature code to provision this.”

“OK, we wil, generate a new eSIM.”

Most tech support calls here. Just give me admin access and I’ll fix it myself. (I try to never be rude, I know they gotta follow a script but I’m hand-feeding the answer here!)

like cars haven’t been like that for YEARS now

Worse, Teslas are designed like computer software rather than cars, which is why they are so dangerous and terrible, as software development processes are absolutely horrible for things that actually matter, especially when compared to existing vehicle engineering principles.

I feel dirty cross-linking to that other place but check out how/where they locate the brake lines. A nice convenient rust-prone place, only accessible by removing the battery. Apparently the design has become even shittier since.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1j8sh8c/thx_for_making_me_take_down_the_battery_for_some/

Deorbit or seize the whole thing.

Keep it coming people! Stay the course!

That character could use employee diagnostic access into the cars as they are always on the Internet. SSH into them, get into the battery controller and do myriad things. Set the thermal management into permanent heat mode. Disable thermal management 100% for the next time the car is driven so it can’t cool the batteries (good for getting rid of pesky rodents like muskrats that try to live in them.) Mess with the charge controller in general so it overcharges, undercharges. You name it. All sorts of fun things one could add to that book depending on your plot.

Make sure while your character is hacking the battery controller though, that they set the car stereo to play Dragula by Rob Zombie at full volume. For effect.

These idiots were dumb enough to design Teslas like computers rather than cars, so a whole lot of stuff was designed like a crappy cell phone rather than the proven design principles of automotive engineering.

Remember he came in after they already existed, was just an investor that demanded he be retroactively called a founder. All their tech up to the CyberCuck were iterations on the original, (sans his corner-cutting you mentioned, which was also terrible).

He rigged up the Twitter purchase so the debt would fall on Twitter if it fails, not him.

Hah, yeah, wasn’t trying to compare smathering junk in an open wound versus modern medicine by any means. Just that the concept has been around for a very long time.

Michigan helped doom us. F them.

The only difference here, is cats serve a purpose.

Molotov CockTesla.

It’d be a pity if someone were to SSH into the car’s admin interface and screw up the battery controller’s thermal management software. They’re all always online.

Worse, they were working with half information. The San Joaquin valley water does eventually connect to LA. California has, over the last century, interconnected a majority of their water, and water from other states, to LA. LA shouldn’t exist in its current form. It’s arid desert, yet way too many people and crops exist there. The El Diablo Canyon nuclear facility exists solely to pump water over mountains for LA. (Was hilarious when Newsom wanted to shut it down until he was educated.)

All that said, wasting reservoirs thinking the water will instantly teleport to LA is so destructively stupid. There is so much interplay in their water infrastructure.

Those boneheaded idiot kids shouldn’t have been given the time of day by anyone. Farmers should hunt them down and make those two work the fields by hand until they recoup their losses. Including filtering out the salt brine they likely contaminated some fields with.

Could it perhaps be the Fox News camera crews they bring around with them?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/20/how-ben-franklin-went-from-anti-vaxxer-to-advocate/

Ben Franklin was anti-vax, but came around. Also these fuckwits are so dumb that they don’t know vaccines have been around throughout when America was “great” and way beyond.

That implies either of them have any intelligence.

See, in the context of Mango Mussolini, the title “senior advisor” doesn’t have the usual weight or connotation. It just means they talk to people around old orange people.

That’s the worst part. I’ve never liked the concept of crating a pet if the pet can’t break out in an emergency. If your pet “needs” a crate, you taught it wrong or have the wrong environment for it as far as I’m concerned.

Oh, no, they’re dumb as a bag of bricks. Dumbest Nazis of all time. AI just makes them dumber.