“It’ll take until someone actually dies in an autonomous vehicle due to a hack…usually, there needs to be an actual event…”
Summary
In part one, we talked about the perils of hacking your ride and how our cars could join our phones in the never-ending, chronically tightening obsolescence cycle. Miller: The aftermarket products (market) would work the same way (by communicating with command systems to request permission). But they’d do the same thing (as other components), ask ‘Hey, I’m going to send that information up’ and the cloud system says ‘Well, hold on, I’ll need you to verify who you are.’ You have to authenticate, just like people do for secure transactions. Unless there’s a government agency that comes in and says ‘We’re going to regulate exactly what you can and cannot do.’ The challenge of a fully autonomous vehicle is so high, except in very specific circumstances, you’re just not going to see it. The idea of autonomous vehicles like the way some think – where I left my car at work and I’m going to tell it to drive itself home – well, under perfect circumstances, perhaps.