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You seem to be under some delusion that a vehicle purchased in the year 2017 doesn't have any software in it, and isn't fully electronically actuated (steering,
by smlacy 9y ago
You seem to be under some delusion that a vehicle purchased in the year 2017 doesn't have any software in it, and isn't fully electronically actuated (steering, brakes, throttle)
They sell these features as "parking assist" or "smart cruise control" or similar, but don't kid yourself into thinking that there's not a very sophisticated software system that could, if hacked, take over control. Has this ever happened? Have there been catastrophic bugs documented?
More advanced vehicles (i.e. Tesla) have enough hardware to be be nearly fully autonomous today. (i.e. they could rend control from a driver and continue to pilot the vehicle to an alternate destination if hacked)