The “Jailbreak” method, which we know as the breaking of Android and iOS operating systems, has also started to enter cars. And from a great place. A research team in Germany has managed to jailbreak Tesla’s most popular vehicle, Model 3.

Let’s say right now, this team consists of white hat hackers. Three members of the team are students of the Institute of Technology in Berlin. Speaking to TechCrunch, the students also shared what they had access to by breaking the Tesla Model 3.

Normally paid features can be accessed for free!

The jailbreak was done on the hardware that makes the car’s infotainment system work. The research team shared that with jailbreak, they can access normally paid features for free. Although the list of these features is not fully shared, it was shared that there are heated rear seats.

How was Tesla jailbroken?

The research team, of course, did not share every step in detail. He shared that they only did this with the “voltage distortion” technique, and they were able to reach the normally closed things by playing with the voltage of the AMD processor of the infotainment system:

In addition, the researchers shared that the only thing Tesla can do to prevent jailbreak is to replace the AMD processor. There was no statement from Tesla on the subject.