As automobile manufacturers add more and more special features to their cars, the systems that these vehicles rely on become more and more complex and also more and more vulnerable to outside tampering.
Now hundreds of thousands of vehicles produced by one major manufacturer are vulnerable to remote hacking that can take over critical systems like brakes, steering, and transmission. Two security researchers; car hackers, recently demonstrated the vulnerability they’d discovered.
Learn more about this alarming flaw and the company’s reaction to the problem on the NEXT PAGE:
Computers….supposed to make life easier….turns out that just applies to the criminals.
That’s nice to know
and this is why computers in cars are a very bad idea
let’s just ride bikes… lol
It was on the local news here tonight. I agree with you.
hey I want that models sent too a big white house…gifts from HOME GROWN AMERICANS—-well it was just a fleeting thought…but must admit it was a good one anyway lol
well not just Crysler products..think about OnStar with GM products…same thing…
I don’t think automated cars are a good idea, not until they can think of ways to hinder the hackers
What if the government decided to target the brakes of Conservatives or gun owners or Christians???
New excuse for accidents – a hacker caused me to wreck!