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"a prank"? Crashing a car is a prank?

• Beltiras 11y ago
  The journalist driver was in on it. I would still not rate that as a "prank". I'd be way too worried about collateral damage resulting from it to take any part in such a stunt.
• mrweasel 11y ago
  Honestly, I still have issues with that story. Either someone shouldn't be allowed to put computers in cars or someone is lying. I almost refuse to believe it's possible to jump from the entertainment system to the computers controlling the car. Designing a car where those two systems are connected in any way other than maybe power and one-way signalling from the car to the entertainment system would be reckless to an almost criminal extend. Honestly, what engineer would suggest something like that?
  • titanomachy 11y ago
    The guys who did the hack chose the Jeep exactly for this reason -- an unregulated data pipe between the entertainment computer and the critical-systems computer. They analysed hundreds of cars and chose the worst-designed one they could find.