This clown has never heard of an EMP.
Suddenly all those cars that don’t have humans driving them will stop working altogether or start acting uncontrollably.
Not to mention the ability to hack the cars, causing problems in the process.
All cars having any electronics in the engine management, brakes, steering or power transmission systems, regardless of who or what is "driving" will have problems after a sufficiently close & powerful EMP.
"It would be easy to say the modern car is a computer on wheels, but its more like 30 or more computers on wheels, said Bruce Emaus, the chairman of SAE Internationals embedded software standards committee."
"According to Bob Hrtanek, a spokesman for the auto supplier Delphi Powertrain Systems, the first Delphi units were introduced around 1980 to improve emissions systems."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/technology/05electronics.html?_r=0
If Microsoft designs to software we can expect the “Blue Screen of Death” to acquire a whole new level of meaning.