Tesla Inc (TSLA)

[boston745]

I do know that he is always on jod EMF kick, having convinced himself that ev’s sre more prone to attack by EMF forced than IC cars. FINALLY I think I understand why.

Because they have larger computers!

Ive said many times EMF can impact more modern ICE cars and have even pointed to Toyotas from 16 years ago to illustrate my point. Less tech is better when it comes to EM radiation. EVs are more tech dependent than ICE.
The other reason EVs are worse than ICE is EVs generate significantly greater levels of EM radiation compared to most ICE vehicles. Bad for your health and thus could be more prone to interference from internal systems rather than just external.

fly-by-wire system which takes sensor input from the accelerator pedal

This is the biggest issue when it comes to SUA and EM radiation. Steering assist systems are also wreaking havoc. Those systems can be added to ICE.

RECREATING THE “STUCK THROTTLE” PROBLEM ON A TOYOTA

While most passenger vehicles older than about 15-20 years controlled the throttle with a cable connected directly from the throttle body to the accelerator pedal, most manufacturers have switched to a fly-by-wire system which takes sensor input from the accelerator pedal and sends that position information to the vehicle’s computer which in turn adjusts the throttle position. This might be slightly cheaper to manufacture, but introduces a much larger number of failure modes to a critical system.

[Colin] is recreating one of those failure modes by introducing an electromagnetic pulse at a specific point on the vehicle’s computer. In the real world, this could be caused by certain forms of EMF potentially including cosmic rays. This introduces a memory fault which the computer doesn’t seem capable of recognizing or clearing. With the right set of circumstances that [Colin] can reliably produce, the computer eventually will drive the throttle fully open, and the condition can only be corrected by power-cycling the vehicle’s computer.

https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/recreating-the-stuck-throttle-problem-on-a-toyota/

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The computer errors from outer space
(Elon Musk: Model S not a car but a ‘sophisticated computer on wheels’)

When computers go wrong, we tend to assume it's just some software hiccup, a bit of bad programming. But ionising radiation, including rays of protons blasted towards us by the sun, can also be the cause. These incidents, called single-event upsets, are rare and it can be impossible to be sure that cosmic rays were involved in a specific malfunction because they leave no trace behind them.

And yet they have been singled out as the possible culprits behind numerous extraordinary cases of computer failure. From a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial airliner that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight, injuring dozens of passengers

Plus, since giant ejections from the sun can sometimes send huge waves of particles towards Earth, what's called space weather, an unnerving prospect looms: we could see much more disruption to computers than we're used to during a massive geomagnetic storm in the future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors