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In the year 2026, at rush hour, your self-driving car abruptly shuts down right where it blocks traffic. You climb out to see gridlock down every street in view, then a news alert on your watch tells you that hackers have paralysed all Manhattan traffic by randomly stranding internet-connected cars.
Flashback to July 2019, the dawn of autonomous vehicles and other connected cars, and physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems, Inc. have applied physics in a new study to simulate what it would take for future hackers to wreak exactly this widespread havoc by randomly stranding these cars. The researchers want to expand the current discussion on automotive cyber-security, which mainly focuses on hacks that could crash one car or run over one pedestrian, to include potential mass mayhem.
They warn that even with increasingly tighter cyber defences, the amount of data breached has soared in the past four years, but objects becoming hackable can convert the rising cyber threat into a potential physical menace.
Hackers could use connected cars to gridlock whole cities
[Source]: Georgia Tech
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Tuesday July 30 2019, @07:46PM (1 child)
I was thinking Minority Report, but "I, Robot" has a good scene too. "I, Robot", was focused on the AI aspect of things and it taking over our lives. As opposed to Minority Report was more about government overreach.
Different dystopian outlooks, same message. Don't trust automated, too much.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday July 31 2019, @05:09AM
As I'm a gearhead, I rather prefer a little fun in my gridlock..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoB_mdZxNlY [youtube.com]
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