> (which, no matter how loud they are, would be hard to hear from across the country, if you've left it in an airport parking lot).
Which is presumably why they're doing this:
> Starting with Roadster 2.0, owners can also elect for their car to contact Tesla headquarters once the state of charge falls below a specified level, and we can then contact the owner.
Probably easier to have one non-changeable email/phone number in the firmware than have to modify/update it for every person they sell the car to.
Plus, it means the company gets to have a personal connection to all of their users, and when you're talking about a $100k buy-in, that might be the sort of attention a lot of these owners are expecting.
Which is presumably why they're doing this:
> Starting with Roadster 2.0, owners can also elect for their car to contact Tesla headquarters once the state of charge falls below a specified level, and we can then contact the owner.