A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you’re driving.
Hackers are able to control a vehicle’s:
- A/C system, changing the temperature in the car
- The radio, changing channels and volume control
- Windshield wipers
- Windshield washer fluid blurring the windows
- dashboard functions
- steering
- brakes
- transmission
All of the car functions above can be controlled from a laptop by a nefarious hacker. Wired. Congress is trying to stop it with the Spy Car Act.