Jeep Cherokee Hackers Join Uber To Make Its Autonomous Car Technology Hack-Proof - Tech Times
They got Chrysler's attention when they hacked a Jeep Cherokee and they likely prompted Uber to take notice. Miller left his post at Twitter and Valesek quit cybersecurity firm IOActive to join Uber's Advanced Technologies Center. The duo will join the company's top senior security officers "to continue building out a world-class safety and security program at Uber," an Uber spokeswoman said. Last month, Miller and Valesek promoted Chrysler to recall 1. 4 million Jeep Cherokee vehicles when the pair proved that they could hack into the automobiles remotely. The pair hacked into a Jeep Cherokee that was travelling at 70 MPH, with volunteer Andy Greenberg, of Wired, behind the wheel. While traveling in the Jeep near downtown St. Louis, Valesek and Miller went to work on the vehicle. Uber gets a home for mapping research vehicles and the university gets a $25,000 donation to its school of optical sciences. The collaborative effort will start with lens design, with the ultimate goal of improving machine vision for driverless cars, according to Brian McClendon, Uber's vice president of advanced technologies and former executive from Google's mapping... Source: www.techtimes.com
