This might seem like a simple case of a stolen car being recovered, but think more carefully about the implications.

A man yelling at people out the window of a parked Tesla was arrested in Arroyo Grande on Tuesday after police determined the vehicle had been stolen from an out-of-area dealership.

The dealer (arguably the owner, yet different) sent an unlock code so a man could not protect himself inside a Tesla.

Obviously his crime was to steal a Tesla, but there are many notable implications of this dealer remotely removing a car’s locks for Police to enter.

Perhaps one of the less obvious points here is that Tesla claims to not use dealers and only sell direct to consumers. So technically Police were working directly with a manufacturer to use a backdoor, which in this case was in the narrow interest of that car maker.

Another point is that the man knew just how weak Tesla security is, since he drunkenly stole the car himself, yet he also was too drunk to realize… how weak Tesla security is.

Tesla had marketed the remote door open feature as a solution for their door handles failing to work, leaving drivers trapped inside when they were too drunk to operate the car safely and their Autopilot software drove them into a tree or a parked firetruck.

Quick control to unlatch Model 3 or Model Y driver door, helpful if door handle is frozen

Yeah, I meant “frozen”. In other words an “Unlatch Door” feature from an app means the door is being remotely electronically unlatched to pop open, avoiding use of the handle at all.