Re: A hackers delight
"Hack the cloud and send the 'stop now' or worse, 'disable' command to all connected cars.
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This is just an example of why the security services must not be allowed any input. Nobody sane would include any such functionality without a "when safe to do so" override.
Hundreds of people, if not thousands, are working on these systems. I've been involved in technical safety committees and the amount of thought that goes into "what could go wrong" is enormous (we're not talking sociopathic Silicon Valley "disruption" here, but sober things like the IEEE and the IEC.). Yet random Internet poster assumes that because they can think of an undesirable failure case, none of those people who have spent years thinking about it in conjunction with others would have spotted it.
It is just possible, but very unlikely. As I say, the biggest risk is political or TLA interference, because they are the ones who do not think outside their very narrow boxes or understand the subject.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
