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Skynet begins on the freeways?I saw this, and my initial reaction is positive. I've always thought if cars could act in a hive mind like state, accidents could be avoided and traffic alleviated. This goes hand in hand with self driving cars IMO.
Skynet begins on the freeways?
Yea, I can't wait until people start hacking the system. Don't like the guy tailgating you? Send an event that an emergency stop is happening from your car causing his to slam on the brakes. There is no way they can properly secure this if every vehicle will participate.
May not let you tailgateYea, I can't wait until people start hacking the system. Don't like the guy tailgating you? Send an event that an emergency stop is happening from your car causing his to slam on the brakes. There is no way they can properly secure this if every vehicle will participate.
May not let you tailgate
Hacking the system to do that will most likely be illegal. On top of that, your car would have it's own sensors. So at best, your car would slow down a bit to keep some distance briefly. Then speed up when it sees no breaks. It will then report this data as a bug for evaluation and the guy doing it goes to jail. Though initially, the system will only give drivers warnings and that is it.
Fair enoiugh. So let's say I want to be malicious and just send out a signal to completely stop all traffic on a major interstate?
May not let you tailgate
While saying "Emergency Brake" might not be considered a protected first amendment speech (like fire in a crowded theater). But sending out truly wrong and distracting information could be defensible with the first amendment, so long as you are not trying to cause a situation where someone may become hurt.
I can see the benefits of the connected car but how easy would it be to track every car's position with this? Not to be too much of a conspiracy guy but do we really need to help the intelligence services?
Well first of all, they can make modifications of the system illegal. Similar to how the telecommunications act made esn cloning illegal for cellphones. Second of all, they can still pin you with reckless endangerment, obstruction of traffic and etc.
Well, anyone that hacks the system is not going to go through their own car. They're going to go through someone else's that's been compromised.
In the example given, you are being tailgated by another car. The only way to make them stop tailgating you is if you use your car to send a signal. If your talking about hacking their car and sending such a signal, you would first have to get their identification number and then hack them. Doing that while driving is a bit tough, maybe with a second passenger. Though overall, I don't think hacking these systems would be easy and even harder hacking someone else's remotely. What they could even do is make the system read only with no remote access and any updates would be a hardware replacement of the modular computer system. Then hacking would be impossible.
Now you can hack the cloud system. but it is only a matter of time till you get caught. And since there is no money in it, professional hackers are not going to risk going to jail over stopping some tailgating.
Spoofing wirelss devices is incredibly simple. You could make a phantom car or multiples that don't really exist.