likely the way that reporter died last year.
So. What unit in the FBI and NHTSA are asking for mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money to address this dire problem?
Is there something about the hacking vulnerability that the FBI can’t backdoor hack and wants access to be able to protect us?
The general public should be more concerned about the FBI hacking into their vehicles.
Locally, thieves are using maintenance software to steal late model Ford trucks. I do not know the specifics, but detectives tell me 14 F350s and F250s were stolen in one county in a 10 day period of time. Thieves could gain access and drive away without a key as quickly as the owner could with a key.
Driverless cars, what could possibly go wrong?
Your car and your cellphone both tell anyone who is interested where you are and where you have been.
Several FReepers have assured me that there is absolutely no risk of hacking or unauthorized interference (government or otherwise) with the operation of with any car, particularly self-driving cars.
One actually used the time-worn phrase “it can’t happen here”.
I’m SO relieved.
And I hear just yesterday all NEW cars are mandated to have automatic breaking.
HOORAY for government.
Only in modern STUPID times would the law allow this situation to exist in the first place. The path to communicating with vehicle systems that control important functions should be a HARDWARE path only. You should have to physically hook in with a cable in order to effect those systems in any way.