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Originally Posted by glatt
Terrorists would love to hack into the driving system and cause every self driving car in the US to suddenly accelerate at high speed off the road.
[/] scared of the future guy
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heh.
the cars I'm least worried about are the autonomously driving cars. the cars I'm most worried about are the luxe/semi-luxe models that tout all the modern WIRELESS conveniences of our internet life, built right into the car for your "pleasure" / "safety" / "convenience". The wirelessness is the part that frightens me, because these cars ALREADY do a fair amount of deciding about the control of the car, including speed control, braking control.
The more dramatic decisions are ones where the car overrides the driver's choices.
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Hacking a car's wireless systems
The wireless hacking was done by taking advantage of the sensors inside each tire that broadcast a brief radio signal every 60 to 90 seconds. The signal tells one of the car's computer systems the pressure of each. But researchers found that even those weak signals could be intercepted up to 120 feet away and hacked from a roadside location – or by a car in traffic.
Traveling in tandem with the target car, the researchers sent false low-air-pressure warnings to the car's dashboard display and eventually wrecked the internal computer.
If sending a spurious "low pressure" messages doesn't sound exactly like Mission Impossible, the work of other researchers yielded potentially more-serious vulnerabilities. In May, a team of researchers reported that they succeeded in hacking into the onboard computer networks that controlled the engine, brakes, and door locks, among other systems. This latter study was done physically – not wirelessly – by connecting into a vehicle's computers.
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CarShark
Using homemade hacking software they dubbed "CarShark," the Washington-San Diego researchers in lab and road tests "demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input – including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on," the researchers wrote.
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Originally Posted by Stuntman Mike
I'm afraid you're gonna have to start getting scared... immediately!
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