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What's to prevent someone from modifying the firmware in their own car which either indirectly or directly causes destruction? This by its very nature cannot b

• anigbrowl 12y ago
  They could, although it'd be needlessly elaborate compared to turning it off, or driving an old car without such functionality. I see more and more luxury cars have things like radar-based collision avoidance built in, which will probably become standard and eventually mandatory on other vehicles. So cars will have to distiguish between what another car is telling them and what their own senses indicate. Also, but a fit farther down the line, even if a vehicle is falsely sending 'I'm slowing down and driving totally safely, nothing to see here!' to other vehicles, if that message is inconsistent with the vehicle's telemetry (approaching rapidly), other cars are going to know there's something amiss.