On 31 Aug 2015, at 20:10, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > According to some, [...] those who deny that it is possible are wrong. > > http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ > > [...] The conspiracy folks [...] >
Do you really, really think that the people who are designing this stuff are not aware of the risks, and do not spend a lot of time and money thinking about this stuff, working through the possibilities and the countermeasures? Have you any idea at all of the types of people who are involved in designing and validating safety-critical software? Even so, it won't be perfect, but anyone who thinks that the risks of the imperfect software coupled with a bloody big Stop! button in every car outweigh the benefits of saving upwards of 1,000,000 lives per year lost as the result of human errors must be barking mad. B > > >> On 8/31/2015 10:01 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: >> >> On the whole, that's an exceedingly bad idea. Whose time is coming. I'm >> likely won't be around to see it. With computer controlled anti lock >> breaks, and computer controlled cruse control, and most every modern car >> having it's owned assigned IP address it's only a matter of time before >> we have the first recorded homicide by hacking a cars cpu(s) and >> network. The more control the computer in the car has the more control >> a hacker can achieve. That's assuming there aren't gross errors in the >> programming to begin with. >> >>> On 8/31/2015 2:07 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote: >>> P.s. I think that in 10-15 years time we'll be seeing moves to make it >>> illegal for humans to drive cars. >>> >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
