As big of dicks as these researchers are, I just have to say, to anyone out there working on software to run cars, airplanes, robots, other mobile vehicles ...

As big of dicks as these researchers are, I just have to say, to anyone out there working on software to run cars, airplanes, robots, other mobile vehicles ... some day, within the next 5 or 25 years, it's pretty likely some nut job is going to use an exploit take control of one or more of these vehicles and crash them/use them as remote-controlled / swarm weapons, possibly killing lots of people. If you're writing that software, make sure you do a really, really good job on security. Because no one wants to be the guy 'git blame' shows wrote the exploitable feature that led to ??? deaths. The industry really should have stringent standards that prevent ridiculous breaches like this, I would say as well as simulators (or physical demo vehicles) available online/open source that people can pen-test against and win prize money. And maybe write all the code in Rust?