The breakaways on the dispensers I worked with in the early 90's had shear pins and were mechanical. We lost 1 or 2 a year at our station in rural Ohio.
Funny story, I broke a plug while undoing it (there was some jank), and it refused to let me go faster than ~5mph. I needed the service station to remove the adapter.
Any vehicle with Onstar has this as an intentional feature. The feature was introduced in 2009.
Electronic ignition interlocks have been common on most vehicles over the past 20 years too... the only reason you can't remotely prevent most other cars from starting is simply software.
Thanks for helping raise awareness about these too. It’s a scary world out there when the devices people rely on can work against them on the whim of another.
Thats not a good plan - most people wont be able to transfer $5000 in 120 seconds just because it is not sitting in the cureen t account tied to your card.
It will use hacked Equifax credit reports to generate an amount that you are most likely to have with 95% confidence.
Secondly, Tesla owners tend to be more affluent. Imagine a cyberpunk world where ransomware attacks are a fact of life: buy cheap cars with reasonable security and minimise your total cost of ownership. Heh.
It is very likely that whatever you are driving today, if it was manufactured in the past two decades in Europe, North America, Brazil, Korea, or Japan, will not let you shift into Drive (automatic) without depressing the brake pedal.
And there's also universally an override to that interlock and the manual tells you exactly where it is. Usually you just pop off a little cover on the gear shift and depress a mechanical button under that cover with the key to the car or any thin enough piece of metal long enough to reach. If Tesla doesn't have something equivalent for charging cables that can be used by the owner then that's a flaw with Tesla. There's a reason why everyone else has an override.
Not the OP but the cashier at the Wendy’s drive-through pointed it out to the driver when I was a passenger. I think the passengers laughter could be measured in litre of tears.
I did this in the late 80s. The handle ripped off and was not magnetically attached. However, gas did not spill from the hose.
I drove back to the station and handed it to the attendant sheepishly. He said thanks.