[bkuhn]

It seems that most commenting in this thread don't have not actually followed the complex political debate going on in the world of automotive industry adoption of FLOSS.

Specifically, the automotive industry has made a series of arguments that proprietary software is ultimately safer than FLOSS, and all their goals are to lock-down FLOSS in various ways to prevent the nefarious from "hacking" the vehicle.

The vehicles are all still hackable, and many have been modified by people for both reasonable and nefarious purposes. The FLOSS situation won't change anything, and there aren't even any examples yet of hacks where FLOSS made the situation worse. It's an assumption they make without full information because of their inherent pro-proprietary bias.