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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 31 2019, @01:48PM
Looking at fuel efficiency data, all I need is a fuel injected engine with a computer controlling the fuel flow and spark timing. Nothing they've added since then has made much of a difference in fuel efficiency. The fuel injector gave us nearly twice the fuel efficiency and we got about 10% more with the 8-bit computers controlling them.
But, where can I get a new compact (or mid-sized) car with a manual transmission, (gives you another 5-10% fuel efficiency if you know how to use it),maybe power steering and an 8-bit controller? I'm quite willing to have the fancy navigation system and in-cab entertainment system as long as it has nothing to do with actually driving the car but I'm also willing to skip it or go after market.