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Can we not introduce some sort of hardware short-circuit? Hit this button and it cuts all power and engages brakes at full force.
by adamhp 5y ago
Can we not introduce some sort of hardware short-circuit? Hit this button and it cuts all power and engages brakes at full force.
- LinuxBender 5y agoOn a general aviation aircraft this would be the power switch for the ECM. Super easy to add a kill switch, if the car manufacturer chose to do so. No idea what a self driving car would do if it lost its ECM and related controllers.
- kvz 5y agoTerrorists would probably have an easier time exploiting this button, which isn’t exactly safe either, than update servers. Or not, but it does introduce yet another attack vector, or technology that could have a bug that makes it trigger by accident.