Look up “the boston brakes”. It appears to have been around for awhile.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Boston%20Brakes
http://www.whale.to/b/assassination_car.html
http://www.whale.to/c/car_hacking1.html
Its a form of car cyber attack
Ah, I get where you are going with this. OK...
Doesn’t surprise me. People laughed when we said years ago when they began computerizing everything this would happen eventually. We got laughed at. Dunno why. Fear probably. Seems an obvious thing to conclude.
There’s a reason I never owned a car with a computer that had wireless access to the computer and it wasn’t because I’m on anyones top 10 list. I just don’t trust them. This is why.