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Originally Posted by HemiEd
Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty certain these driverless cars are networked (blue toothed, internet, whatever you want to call it), especially the cab company referenced in post 56 from San Francisco. I can not imagine any possibility of them turning a fleet of driverless cars loose without a central dispatch control.
Can you?
However, your normal consumer owned car, has a self contained, non networked computer. You would need to plug into it to hack it, similar to the service code reader.
Thus, the possibility of hacking driverless cars would be a very real possibility.
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I generally think that some point in the future driverless cars will be an improvement over human drivers. But yes, if there are millions of Waymo Google cars or Uber driverless cars or any on demand driverless car service...
Yes, the network being hacked is one of those unlikely, but high risk scenarios that need to be taken seriously.
Having millions of cars being ordered to crash simultaneously is the Hollywood movie scenario.
But even just a situation where a hack shuts down tens of millions of cars that commuters count on every day would be serious.
The idea that any network that is online is 100 percent secure is laughable.