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" Modern vehicles become more like consumer electronics devices every year, and few cars epitomize this like the Tesla Model S, with its massive tablet-style touchscreen that acts as the center control stack.  Smartphone hackers have long been accustomed to finding hidden service menus in their devices that point to unadvertised functionality, so it shouldn&amp;#039;t come as a surprise that the Tesla control system has something similar built in. Someone messing with a Model S figured out how to access this configuration menu and found settings for capabilities the car doesn&amp;#039;t currently have.  While the Model S is a remarkably sophisticated electric vehicle, for a car that costs anywhere from $70,000 to 100,000 or more, it&amp;#039;s completely lacking in the latest advanced driver-assist features like adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection, and lane departure prevention. After all, you can get that stuff on a $30,000 Ford Fusion.  It looks like the software team has added the hooks to enable these features on future iterations of Elon&amp;#039;s dream car. Of course, each of these systems requires some sensors that aren&amp;#039;t present on any Model S built to date, so current owners won&amp;#039;t be getting these features pushed to them via software updates. Still it&amp;#039;s nice to know that customers spending this kind of money will eventually have the option to add features that are already available on most price-competitive models.      Via DragTimes, Autoblog "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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