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Research the last year your favorite car model was made with mechanical steering and mechanical accelerator and only buy those. You only have to go a decade bac
by ck2 11y ago
Research the last year your favorite car model was made with mechanical steering and mechanical accelerator and only buy those. You only have to go a decade back at most like I did.
You might want to stick with those years considering industries that have little knowledge or care about security are endangering your very life at highway speeds.
It's going to take them another half decade to care about these things and they will probably just solve it by lobbying politicians to waive liability instead.
- jnbiche 11y agoMechanical steering? You'd have to go back significantly more than a decade to find cars without power steering for most cars.
- coryrc 11y agoFluid pumping is still mechanical. They mean electric steering.
- ck2 11y agoMy last car the power steering pump was out half the time and I could still drive everywhere - it just gave my arms a bit of a workout at low speeds.
- brudgers 11y agoOperating a vehicle with that level of maintenance would seem to pose a substantially more proximate risk than the unrealized potential risk posed by hackers.
- akerl_ 11y agoI feel like this is one of those examples of attempting to prevent a low-risk concern and instead increasing overall risk. Is the risk savings of avoiding a car with modern steering and accelerator worth the added risk of lacking other safety features of more recent advances in designing safe automobiles?
- ck2 11y agoYou can get virtually all safety features from today in a car a decade old, it just cost more then and was optional so you have to look for the options.
- BillinghamJ 11y agoMany insurers will increase your pricing for older cars. Just something to be aware of.
- runholm 11y agoModern cars with high security have a wide array of sensors that pay attention to everything that goes on around the car and warn you or take actions to avoid dangerous situations. They also pay attention to your driving pattern and can warn you when you are starting to get tired or start dosing off.
- brudgers 11y agoTo me, it's turtles all the way down. A three letter state agency isn't going to be stopped by the tamper resistant packaging on a Tylenol bottle and it's probably easier for a criminal or a military to just shoot their victim [at least in the US]. Disabling the victim's vehicle with software is a bit Rube-Goldbergian and a psychopath doing it on a mass scale just for the lol's could just as well poison a water system. Industries at the scale of the automobile industry are always making actuarial bets on fatality rates. Software or hardware or mechanical or digital is irrelevant, e.g. GM cheapening ignition switches without changing part numbers. Anyway, brakes have been digitally controlled for many many years. Avoiding that means no traction and stability control systems and the ordinary hazards [e.g. hydroplaning] that those mitigate are orders of magnitude more likely than my car getting hacked.