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Most important sentence of the article IMO:

However, the researchers explained, “This attack does not yield drive control of the car though.”

[EricE]

Sure - they can’t turn your car into the equivilent of an RC car but they don’t have to. Simply killing the engine while you are in the middle of traffic is more than enough to cause chaos, sew distrust in our infrastructure, etc.