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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: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday July 31 2019, @08:01PM
I see what you're saying. I think what you are describing is studying a system, reading its manuals and normal use. You can certainly do a lot of things that way, but you will not get any free long distance calls :)
Since you asked.
It started a month after I got the vehicle, 2010 model, this was 2016. I was going about 35 miles an hour in a mostly empty 4 lane stoplight road. The carfax had nothing like this on it, otherwise drove exactly as I wanted.
From that point on, it shut down essentially completely randomly until the computer was destroyed twice, it wouldn't start at all and was locked in place. The radio would go out but the dashlights would be on. The car would be rolling but the speedometer would say 0. One of the red all wheel drive lights came on. It happened at all speeds and weather conditions and only one time on the interstate highway when I had just left kansas city for good. Then I drove for thousands of miles with no shutdowns.
Then when I was delivering pizza in issaqua wa on 11-23-17 it shutdown in snow on highland going up hill in traffic. In snow. A car could have really slammed me from behind, I stopped a middle land of traffic. Had to be towed.
If you think the mechanics are incompetent, call them up. I spent nearly 3000 dollars on this and it threatened my life, do you not think I asked these questions? 3 master technicians, kansas, missouri, washington. Christian Brothers, Oneal Honda, Integrity Automotive. Those people are not jokers, they have the honda machines, they are trained master technicians.
They could not explain it, do you really think you can?
Do you really think I should be risking my life driving a car in the united states after that? Someone call a journalist, I would love to tell them about the harassment I experienced in the United States. Heck, call Honda.
Things are a lot worse than you think. Journalists are not doing their jobs, the cops are getting away with everything. But I would also like you to acknowledge the risk I am taking by writing about the things I do in clear text on the internet, and help me hire a bodyguard plz thanks.
Good talk. Thanks in advance for listening, anyone who did. Having your car computer disintegrate for no explainable reason is a truly infuriating experience and you never quite regain your trust in vehicles. Or that your government is good and that the police are protecing you rather than attacking you in an extremely douchey gaslighting manner.
But if you want to blame it on the mechanics tools and don't think a peace and privacy and bds supporter could have their car computer destroyed by satellite or who knows what in america in 2019, sure, you're responsible though for where you place your bets and things are getting a little hairy for those of us with our necks out.