Hackers take control of moving Jeep Cherokee

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ganoncrotch said:

beeje13 said:
You can keep your self driving cars, I like driving.

And why does this vehicle have wireless access to it's control systems?

could be for something as innocent as updating maps in the gps system which need to be kept up to date so that new roads or old roads can be added/removed, what they said in the video is they used their exploit to get into the system then move laterally around to see what systems are linked together to send them commands, just down to shoddy programming basically.

There are other reasons to have a internet connection: to check traffic conditions and weather prediction.

For example. let's say that you leave work on one of those self driving cars, and there are 3 routes to go back home. The car connects to the net and finds that there's a traffic jam on the first route and that a storm is comming, making route two more dangerous (because of floodable parts of the road, for example), leaving route three as the best option.