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Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful... by jgalt212 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:15AM (#15356831)
> Inter-vehicle communications is standardized

That is a recipe for easy sabotage. I think any self-driving car can accept inputs from all sorts of senors and/or peer devices, but at the end of the day it should "trust no one".

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Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful... by kelvin0 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:22AM (#15356892)
Everything around you is ripe for sabotage, even today's cars: https://www.wired.com/2016/08/jeep-hackers-return-high-speed...

Inter-vehicle communication is not immune from that also. But it is a necessary condition, in the same way the air traffic control towers help orchestrate flight and access to airspace.

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Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful... by jgalt212 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:57AM (#15358120)
> air traffic control towers help orchestrate flight and access to airspace

those comms are controlled by humans, and they are not hackable. If you want an air traffic controller to transmit dangerous instructions to a pilot, you must kill the good air traffic controller and replace him with a saboteur.

Did you not see Die Hard 2?

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Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful... by kelvin0 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @03:27PM (#15360005)
Yes, of course Mr. Wonka.
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