Still too early to tell what happened. Is there anything to this apparent debunking of the hacked Mercedes theory?
“.....it took the coroner two days to positively ID Hastings’ body.”
Has the Coroner dropped dead of arsenic poisoning yet?
That’s what happened a year ago, the same day the LA Coroner’s office released the Breitbart autopsy report — Michael Cormier (LA Coroner technician) was rushed to the hospital and died from suspected arsenic poisoning.
WITHIN HOURS of the autopsy report getting released. Another magical coincidence!
A full year later, do we have any clue what the hell happened to Cormier? Any “official investigation” findings?
Nope.
Skepticism that isn’t a two-edged sword devolves into an irrational bias.
“But there are many, many reasons we need to be stay away from this theory in this case for now. As the Los Angeles Times notes, law enforcement officials are “weeks away” from determining the exact cause of Hastings’ death, including what happened to the car and how fast it was going. “
Are they still investigating? It was my impression they already claimed it to be an accident and that there was nothing to see here.
Oh and let’s not forget 2 cops were returning to the police station a few nights after the Hastings crash.
As they paused in the driveway to swipe their access card, somebody runs up to their unmarked police car and starts shooting into their car, grazing both officers.
This station is near the site of the Hastings crash.
Hastings crashed approx 4am.
These cops were ambushed approx 4am (a few nights later).
Wanna bet they were ON SHIFT on the same night, at the same time, that Hastings crashed/exploded?
The dead bodies, and attempts to make more dead bodies, are stacking up. This is turning into a modern-day Chinatown.
That’s the weakest “debunking” of anything I’ve ever seen.
Here’s my “book report” on this article.
TITLE: Why It’s Unlikely Someone Killed Michael Hastings By Hacking His Car
AUTHOR: Patrick George
SUMMARY: The government probably didn’t hack the car of Michael Hastings because it’s only been a week, so the police haven’t finished their investigation yet.
The administration wouldn’t have to hack the car, if they hack the driver.
Inject him with alcohol and place a block of wood onto the gas pedal.
http://redflagnews.com/headlines/michael-hastings-wife-vows-to-take-down-whoever-did-this
“Michael Hastings’ Wife Vows to ‘Take Down Whoever Did This’”
He was brietbarted
Likely or unlikely, I’m betting post it notes are making a comeback in newsrooms across America.
If that article was meant to debunk the conspiracy theory the author did an extremely poor job of presenting any info to support his case.
It’s certainly possible that the car was hacked, but I don’t think it was done wirelessly without prior preparation.
If someone got access to the car for a time, maybe only a few minutes, relatively simple wirelessly controllable devices could be installed that would override the driver’s control of the throttle and possibly also the electric power steering assist.
These are “drive by wire” cars in which the physical throttle is operated by an electric motor.
This would be enough to create an accident situation, and to set off the bomb that they also installed.
You can have a car equipped with onstar shut off on command by police (they advertise such for anti theft ). What else can one control?
Alcohol, drugs or falling asleep at the wheel. None of those are plausible for a 4am crash at all.
That stated, although I know none of the specifics of automotive computing systems, their instruction sets and 'operating systems' that may be employed to operate them, my opinion is that hacking into one for the purpose of creating a remote-controlled death car is preposterous. And damned-near impossible.
This is stuff for people who believe everything they see in action-adventure movies, CSI, McGuyver and Monk -- entertaining, but riddled with patently preposterous miracle technology that stretches the capabilities of existing equipment into the absurd. Computers can be built and programmed to do just about anything. But the key word is 'built'. You don't just decide that you're going to 'hack' a specific-purpose industrial computer into a perpetual motion machine or use it to spin straw into gold.
That’s a useless story—nobody has suggested that some 14yo in Indonesia did him in.