http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/scientists-hack-cars-computers-control-brakes-engine/story?id=11448163
Oh the headaches of those little complications. Real safety can never be insured, unless they take the computers out of the cars. Not only can they be hacked but they also malfuntion.
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In seconds the target car's engine, brakes, and door locks are under their nefarious control.
Texas cops say a man hacked into GPS systems and disabled more than 100 cars.It doesn't take a great script writer to figure out what's next – except that it's not the movies anymore. It's real – well, almost.
