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HomeNewsTesla now monitors how often you adjust your seat position
and will disable controls for 'chronic abusers'

Tesla now monitors how often you adjust your seat position and will
disable controls for 'chronic abusers'

January 28, 2022 Darryn John News 0
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Tesla often takes advantage of the connected nature of their cars for
good. They have warned owners of potential problems with their cars,
or notified them to limit charging to help ease pressure on the grid
during times of excessive demand.

They have also used it for other purposes some might consider "not
good,"  like tracking the number of times the passenger lumbar
controls were adjusted, resulting in the removal of the feature
altogether.

Now Tesla has taken a new approach that could fall into the "not
good" category by monitoring how many times you adjust your seat.

Based on a review of the source code by hacker @greentheonly, the
automaker recently added "seat abuse" metrics.

According to green, if you move the seat too much messages will pop
up on the display like "Excessive use of seat track motor detected,"
and "Seat track motor unavailable due to excessive use."

Green did not say what the thresholds were to receive these messages,
but it looks like if you ignore them, Tesla will even go so far as to
disable the controls and put you seat adjustment jail with the
message "Wait 5 minutes to adjust the seat position again."

You are probably wondering why Tesla would implement a seemingly
trivial thing like seat abuse metrics.

While we don't know for sure, we do know Tesla collects a lot of data
about their cars. They have likely seen an increasing trend in damage
or failure of seat motors, and in an attempt to keep warranty costs
down, decided it was a good idea to add this feature.

Along with the new code, green also noticed that Tesla appears to
have a new front seat vendor for the Model 3 and Model Y - Brose, an
automotive supplier based in Coburg, Germany.

    ha, they are also introducing "seat abuse" metrics complete with
    disabling of seat moving for busers with helpful messages like
    "Excessive use of seat track motor detected""Seat track motor
    unavailable due to excessive use" and "Wait 5 minutes to adjust
    seat track position again"

    -- green (@greentheonly) January 27, 2022

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