| As the article and the linked PDF quickly mention, cybersecurity is a concern, a really big problem difficult to solve. A cracked traffic or car signal, a spoofed radio signal, or more simply a malfunctioning sensor from both, is something to watch out for. Then, at what point could the data received be trusted without a real trusted source like a visual of what is really happening? Collapsing a city or causing an accident could be as simple as tricking vehicles into thinking they have another vehicle in front of them by receiving false data with the codes of legitimate vehicles or traffic signals for example. IMHO vehicles should not react to data from third parties/external, but to a own -and mandatory redundant- sensoring data within the vehicle. But even nowadays there are problems with this as owners of cars with automatic proximity braking systems could explain. There is also another problem, when the vehicle is connected to a network to receive an OTA or to modify any type of engineering parameter, it already has its own vector of attack, homologous to when one use the remote key to open and start the car, and the signal is captured and cracked by a third party; We didn't saw manufacturers solving this across all this years. The article concludes like if the problem were political, a sabotage, but without explaining why the cybersecurity is a real problem. I'm European, so I'm not sure what lobbies are involved there, for sure they exist, but if we ignore it and look at it from a technical point of view, IMHO the cybersecurity problem should be solved -which I'm not sure can be solved- before moving the money. |