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Re:Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016 by apk-d on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:47AM (#14513019)
I'd be a bit scared to sit inside a public autonomous vehicle. I mean, how hard could it be to tamper with the thing before I get in? I'd be surprised if it didn't run WiFi, Bluetooth AND cellular at the same time.

It'd be best if the software on it was open source, came with a nice tasty bug bounty and had an occasional audit from a third party secu- oh god it's never happening is it

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Re:Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016 by Dylan16807 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:15AM (#14513311)
I can understand worries about some kind of remote mass hacking, but in-person tampering with one vehicle? Just slit the brake line. In other words, not a new issue.
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Re:Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016 by rockinghigh on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:19AM (#14514327)
People could also tamper with non-autonomous transit like disabling the breaks.
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