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Thursday, 29 September 2016

Cars & Transportation: Safety: “Question: Could you get kidnaped if someone hacked one of those self-driving cars?” plus 5 more

Cars & Transportation: Safety: “Question: Could you get kidnaped if someone hacked one of those self-driving cars?” plus 5 more


Question: Could you get kidnaped if someone hacked one of those self-driving cars?

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 10:29 PM PDT

No. All self-driving models require the presence of a supervising driver in the driving seat at all times who can immediately resume full manual control at any time.

Even if that was not possible it would be easy to turnnoff the igntion or better to apply the fully mechanical, non-electronically hackable, parking/emergency brake or to pit the transmission lever into neutral or park.

You also need to be worth kidnapping to begin with, and the vast majority of people aren't. But as self-driving cars are still rare enough that most people never encounter them you can indulge your current paranoia without ever likely restricting your mobility.

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Posted: 28 Sep 2016 06:48 PM PDT

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