I agree it doesn't feel right. I have a Tesla, and often come out and find other Teslas parked right to mine. Sometimes 4 or 5. At some point, someone would've been able to unlock mine and done something to my car. Or similar settings anywhere else.
I think we'd have heard this story more than once if it was possible.
EDIT: I grant the possibilities outlined by the responders to my post... still, I'll put a little $$ on this getting clarified otherwise in the coming weeks -- but not any more than that, as I've lost a $ in this week's banking crisis.
There's always the first time you hear a particular story. There's a continuously increasing mapping from how likely such an event is to when you should expect to hear about it for the first time.
That seems like a nonsequitor to me. I don't think that being well-off correlates to whether or not someone is willing to violate the law. And I don't think that, in this situation, rummaging through the car to find contact info is actually illegal.
It could be a rare hash collision. It wouldn't happen to you but with millions of Teslas out there it would happen to somebody. I wouldn't be surprised if this were real.
I think we'd have heard this story more than once if it was possible.
EDIT: I grant the possibilities outlined by the responders to my post... still, I'll put a little $$ on this getting clarified otherwise in the coming weeks -- but not any more than that, as I've lost a $ in this week's banking crisis.