Hackers successfully manage to remotely kill a Jeep Cherokee a Wired author was testing for them

[Hollosoulja]

I feel like the government invested in this technology and now it's backfiring like hell.

[JumpinJackFlash]

I'll never drive a car that does not have some method of controlling the vehicle unpowered, ever. I'm reluctant to even get into one, I don't give a flying fuck how robust the computer system is an electrical failure kills [i]everything.[/i] In a mechanical system if my steering column snaps (unbelievably unlikely, by the way) I at least can stand on the brakes. If my brakes go, (more likely, but still nowhere near common) I always have the ability to pilot the car and avoid danger. I've lost both power and my brakes and I avoided further disaster by plowing into the ditch at a controlled rate.

I will never relinquish that control, even if self-driving cars become a thing being able to control the vehicle manually in an emergency is non-negotiable.

[pr00ch]

[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;48261966]This is why I hate modern vehicles. Computerization has gone way too far. Not only is it making vehicles more vulnerable to attacks, but it's also making it more and more difficult to modify vehicles without messing up something completely unrelated.[/QUOTE]

Fiat 126p or bust

[Damjen]

[QUOTE=proch;48269349]Fiat 126p and you are bust[/QUOTE]

Ftfy. I would rather have hacked car than a car you can hack to pieces with your own hands.

[RoboChimp]

[QUOTE=Sableye;48269061]1st off, this is going to get a lot harder when cars adopt the emulated sims that carriers are switching to, its going to happen because it'll make the whole system easier and cheaper to manufacture (because currently someone gets paid to insert SIM cards into every single car), 2nd i almost wonder if this is a result of having electrical engineers and computer engineers working on a car with the intent for things to just work and no thought for security, or if this is a deliberate act to put backdoors on car ECUs for law enforcement, repossession agencies, and dealerships and they just have shit security[/QUOTE]It's unlikely you'll need a mobile plan to buy a car, even if that was the case (which would be very stupid) you could just buy a prepaid plan and run it out. If it was deliberate, they'd have used better security and given the agencies the passcodes for the vehicles, it looks more like a mistake.

[Xonax]

Man this is disturbing, I haven't bought a car yet but I now know I won't be getting one that has shit like this.

[Reshy]

The controls of the car shouldn't be connected to the internet.