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Re:Self-Crashing Cars by jonknee on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:42PM (#16261978)
> Once an attacker can remotely hack a single car, they can hack all cars that have an identical configuration, with little additional cost.

And do what with them? It's decently difficult to fence a single car, it's impossible to make millions of cars disappear.

Re:Self-Crashing Cars by trsse on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:06PM (#16262350)
If you'd read the article you'd see several examples. Drive them at 120mph into gas stations, for starters.
Re:Self-Crashing Cars by dovdovdov on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:57AM (#16263394)
Let's get rid of gas stations, for starters!

Btw, the truck attack in the German market would've been a much larger scale if the truck's safety mechanism didn't trigger the emergency break.

Regardless, that Jeep hack sure proved a clusterf*ck of system design, and should be a cautionary tale.

Re:Self-Crashing Cars by WillReplyfFood on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:54AM (#16263630)
The system design clusterfuck is what you always get, when you cram as much software as possible on as few ecus as possible.

You wouldnt buy a car that is safe- because bad security does not smell.