Glossary
Remote Immobilization
Remote immobilization is the ability to remotely disable a shared vehicle's operation — stopping it from starting, or in some systems stopping it while in motion under specific conditions — used for recovering an unreturned vehicle, responding to reported theft, or enforcing a usage boundary. It's one of the most consequential single capabilities a fleet-management system offers, precisely because misusing it doesn't just deny digital access to something, it can physically strand or disable a vehicle someone is actively depending on.
Access to trigger immobilization needs to be at least as tightly controlled as the ordinary vehicle-access permissions it's meant to enforce, and arguably considerably more so — a false or malicious trigger has real-world physical consequences for whoever's using the vehicle at the time, which is a materially different, and generally more severe, kind of harm than most other access-control failures produce.