Yeah, that's what gets me, too. Faking a letter would pretty obviously be a bad move legally-speaking, but people make bad moves sometimes. Faking the remote deactivation of the vehicle on the highway, tho... I mean, how would you even begin to do such a thing, even as a software engineer?
FWIW: As of two years ago[1], owners were not able to remotely disable their own cars. Not finding any indication that that has changed.
Other comments explained how he faked it without having to remotely disable his car, but the short version is he put the car in Park, then opened YouTube in fullscreen and played a video with a fake Tesla UI with the message he wanted to show.
FWIW: As of two years ago[1], owners were not able to remotely disable their own cars. Not finding any indication that that has changed.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/16ebp1t/can_a_...