[jboy55]

Is this a 'man in the middle' attack for 3rd party nefarious purposes, like controlling someone else's Audi ... Or just plain reverse engineering of a communications protocol to hack the software for 1st party education and extension? Why the click-baity title as if this is some great compromise to the integrity of the Audi? Am I missing something?

[mtreis86]

The latter, "We built a python script to read a joystick and used a panda to send the CAN messages to the FPGA, which overrides the appropriate bits on the FlexRay bus to control the EPS. By combining the results from the previous steps, we were able to control the steering with a joystick."