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clipclopflop ◴[] No.45063380[source]
Years back I bought a model3 infotainment unit on eBay to hack on - it’s absolutely insane at the amount of data contained on them. After gaining access to the system I was able to get the VIN of the car and find the salvage auction from the car it came out of - it had been wrecked. I then was able to get all the location data that gets logged, showing a glimpse of the previous owners life (house, work, stores they went to, etc) as well as the final resting place of the car. The last gps locations logged were at the end of a “T” intersection in North Carolina - google street view gave a nice look at the trees the car most likely hit :>
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foobarian ◴[] No.45063831[source]
Neat! What's the hardware like, a Linux-ish computer with SD cards? Or SSD? Which filesystem?
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1. gwbas1c ◴[] No.45063926[source]
I suspect it's Windows, actually, and I'm pretty sure the UI is some form of C#.

They tried to recruit me for the UI. If I lived closer, I would have jumped on it. Not only was I bit of a Tesla fanboy at the time, I used to work across the street from their office and really liked that area. (Deer Creek Road in Palo Alto.)

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2. flutas ◴[] No.45064023[source]
https://github.com/teslamotors/linux
3. dagmx ◴[] No.45064127[source]
It’s Linux and the UI is Qt
4. iamjake648 ◴[] No.45064887[source]
If this were true, Tesla wouldn't have the only use able car infotainment system in the industry.