![]() ![]() ![]() Yet a typical modern car, says security researcher Charlie Miller, who has been studying the matter recently, “has 10 to 30 computers, and they all have to talk to each other”. A luxury car may have as many as 70. The fear of a vehicle careening out of control is why so many people panic at the thought of Google’s self-driving cars – and it’s why the cars don’t hit the road without at least two Google staffers in charge. In the end, however, the electronic systems were cleared by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which concluded that the problem was mechanical, sometimes compounded by driver error. Many observers’ first thought was to blame the vehicle’s electronics. Grossman steers us around the risksĪnyone who has ever driven a car will have had no trouble imagining the terror of the drivers in the 2010 news stories about runaway Toyotas that could not stop accelerating until they ran out of gas or hit something. Are the vehicles we drive the next target for hackers? Wendy M. ![]()
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