Yarov crashed the car at the end of 2022. He probably bought a new one because the Tesla app stayed on his phone and then started sending him notifications from the car that is currently going somewhere near Kryvyi Rih.

what is known

In an interview with CNBC, safety experts and parts dealers said that even if the car in question crashes, as with Yarov’s car, internet-connected cars can pose a security threat to their former owners.

The publisher says its editor-in-chief sold the wrecked Model X to a New Jersey junkyard that works with Copart, the online auction site specializing in selling “scrap cars”—when the crashed cars are designated a total loss by an insurance company. Experts said it is not uncommon for such “hopeless” cars to be repaired and shipped to other countries. Apparently, for American viewers this is quite new, for Ukrainians it is commonplace.

I wonder what neither the auction nor the junkyard confirmed that the car was sold.

“It’s unusual. I had a Tesla, I crashed it, it’s completely ruined. And now… in Ukraine? And someone there is listening to Drake on my Spotify account that I haven’t closed yet”– Written by Jay Yarov.

Yarov said that after his car crashed, Tesla sent him an email advising him to disconnect his account from the car. But apparently he never did. He didn’t shut down his Spotify either. Data for the latter shows that the new owner of the car was listening to Drake through someone else’s account.