[username223]

Scary stuff. We connected light bulbs to the internet so people could turn them on and off with their phones, and they were hacked and turned into a botnet[1]. Okay, fine, maybe your "smart" bulbs blink or burn out, and you replace them with "dumb" bulbs.

Why, exactly, do people think it's a good idea to connect cars' engines to the internet? If something is exposed to hostile input, it will eventually be hacked, and if there are 100,000 identical things out there, they will all be hacked at once. Unfortunately, I think it will take something like all Teslas accelerating uncontrollably off the road, because some teenager was bored, for people to get it.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161107/09211835982/not-e...

[Spooky23]

All governments are essentially mandating connected cars effective 2020 model year.

As hybrid and electrics take root, mileage and location based metering/taxation will become a major revenue source.

[perl4ever]

In the past, requirements for new cars were not retroactively applied to previous year models. Are you saying that is/will be changing?

[Spooky23]

My guess is that in a decade you’ll be using an OBD device for time and distance based metering, or pay a heavy surcharge for LPR based location only systems.

Transponder systems like EZPass have a business model too expensive to scale.