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> Once an attacker can remotely hack a single car, they can hack all cars that have an identical configuration, with little additional cost.

And do what with them? It's decently difficult to fence a single car, it's impossible to make millions of cars disappear.

If you'd read the article you'd see several examples. Drive them at 120mph into gas stations, for starters.

Let's get rid of gas stations, for starters!

Btw, the truck attack in the German market would've been a much larger scale if the truck's safety mechanism didn't trigger the emergency break.

Regardless, that Jeep hack sure proved a clusterf*ck of system design, and should be a cautionary tale.

The system design clusterfuck is what you always get, when you cram as much software as possible on as few ecus as possible.

You wouldnt buy a car that is safe- because bad security does not smell.