The incident took place on March 7. Rajesh Randev was in a hurry to pick up his kids from school and didn’t notice when he mistaken his Tesla Model 3 for the same car parked nearby. she has no problems was able to open someone else’s car door using an app on his phoneHe got behind the wheel and drove off.

What happened

• After a while, he became suspicious when he saw a crack in the windshield that was not in his car.
• Doubts grew when he couldn’t find a charger for his phone in his car, which was always in the cabin.
• Then the man started receiving strange text messages from a Mahmood claiming that Rajesh was driving his car.

Then he decided to stop and take a closer look at the electric car. After leaving the cabin, the driver made sure that the car had no license plate and no other wheels..

Rajesh called the person who received the message and realized that the real owner had gotten his number by calling the police and telling the number of the car left in the parking lot. Then the Tesla owner let Rajesh pick the kids up from school and then return the car to him.

We both laughed at the situation. The police did not file a kidnapping case against me because it had no basis.
– Commented by Rajesh Randev.

Randev noted that he had turned to Tesla for clarification and recorded video evidence that someone else’s car had been “hacked”, but that no one had yet contacted him.

As a reminder, Tesla’s smartphone key app allows users to unlock their cars and start driving when their phone is nearby, but each owner must be connected to their car. It cannot unlock another Tesla. Some skeptics have suggested that Mahmud’s Tesla was probably on and already open. The Model 3, however, has a system that locks the doors and prevents anyone from getting behind the wheel after the owner leaves the vehicle. Therefore, it is probably a bug.