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There's a few million cars around with remote kill switch technology on board. "We can disable the ignition but not while you're driving," Melanie Boudrea
by bigbugbag 10y ago
There's a few million cars around with remote kill switch technology on board.
"We can disable the ignition but not while you're
driving," Melanie Boudreau, a spokesperson at IMETRIK, a
Canadian maker of starter interrupt devices that run
around $100 each, told Fortune. "We don't want to kill
you."
Maybe in a not so distant future or political regime, this stance on not killing people may change. Remote kill switch are not limited to ignition, there's a moving vehicle version intended for police use to stop a car chase[1] so there's that, we can expect this[2] to be done on moving vehicle in the wild at some point[3].
[1]: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Autos/story?id=3706113&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Autos/story?id=3706113&page=1
[2]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/03/disabling_cars.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/03/disabling_car...
[3]: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
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