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by openopenopen 950 days ago
The network connection is an excellent point, yesterday Optus, a large telecommunications and Internet provider, suffered a nationwide outage that affected at least 10 million Australians.

Imagine if millions of cars failed to function properly because they were linked to network. If there was a natural disaster, this may have terrible consequences.

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Maybe they might make a Black Mirror episode titled "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
> Imagine

Imagine if that happened to payments.