Tesla Cybertruck owner recounts how thief exploited auto-lock feature to enter vehicle

A informing for owners of Teslas equipped with the auto-lock feature: Car burglars whitethorn beryllium waiting for the accidental to summation entree to your vehicle.

Eddie Villa thought his Cyber Truck had locked automatically, until a thief got successful with conscionable a touch. And it was each caught connected camera.

"As I conjecture I'm getting my stuff, he's getting person to the truck, but I didn't deliberation excessively overmuch of it," Villa said. "I locomotion away, and helium creeps up and hits the doorway fastener to unlock it similar this, and it conscionable stays open."

It was astir 3 successful the afternoon, and Villa was making a halt astatine the Staples successful Downey. He says helium noticed a mates of suspicious radical walking astir his motortruck and successful the store with him. When helium realized helium had forgotten thing successful his vehicle, helium went back. That's erstwhile helium noticed thing was off.

"So arsenic I'm coming out, I spot the aforesaid archetypal feline successful the bluish garment locomotion distant from my truck, and past I besides perceive my motortruck lock, which should've already been locked," Villa said. "So arsenic I get closer, I look into my motortruck and spot the halfway console open."

Eddie saw the antheral walking distant with what helium believes were his astir $600 brace of Louis Vuitton sunglasses. He says he's thankful they didn't person clip to drawback much things, but helium wants others who usage the autolock diagnostic to beryllium aware.

"Everybody's been telling me, 'You should beryllium paying attraction to perceive it fastener erstwhile you're walking away.' I didn't. I was thrown off, and I deliberation I conscionable got complacent," Villa said. "You know, I'm utilized to conscionable walking away, and the motortruck locks connected its own. So if anything, you know, perceive to it fastener oregon manually fastener it, 1 of the two."

Villa says helium has filed a constabulary study with the Downey police.