A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you’re driving. It’s like a self driving car, driven by criminals with you in it.
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. Sens. Ed Markey & Richard Blumenthal would require the Federal Trade Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop standards to protect drivers’ privacy and to guard against a potentially deadly hack of a vehicle. The Hill Ft Worth Star Telegram