Your car is 'Stoned:' Autos join the hacking era - Fox News
) and announced on screen, “Your computer is now stoned. Now the auto industry is facing its Stoned moment, and how it reacts will determine how quickly — or slowly — we get to the autonomous car of the future. Today's auto version comes from two researchers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, who have been working for a long time trying to figure out how to break into vehicles over the Internet and take over their controls. The researchers say they finally managed it, demonstrating how they could play with a 2014 Jeep Cherokee's windshield wipers, crank its radio, and even bring the car to a halt on a busy highway — all done with just the use of a laptop that was... The car was “stoned,” behaving like a drunk driver careening down the road. After several days of media attention — and attention from federal regulators — Fiat Chrysler announced a recall of roughly 1. 4 million vehicles, ranging from the Dodge Durango and Ram to the Chrysler 200. Model years extend from 2013 to 2015 in... It proves that vehicles are not nearly as securely designed as they could be and that car companies need to pay more attention to cyber security, from the wireless carriers they use and information that's shared to even the individual chips used... Source: www.foxnews.com
