This is why buying as low-mileage a used car you can get from ~2010 or older is wise. Especially one with a keyed ignition vs. push start.
Political assassination via cyber attack/backdoor? ezpz, find a tree, accelerate into it, claim it was the car acting up.
Bug in the software? Sorry you're dying today because they wanted to repossess cars easier, your life is less important than protecting capital.
We're in a world where deregulation has planes either falling out of the sky or attempting to. I don't trust any soft handed regulation on cars without manual overrides.
My car has a push start, but also a manual transmission. I know if something goes wrong and my engine stops responding to the electric throttle I can just pop out of gear and coast.
On the political assassination front, wasn't there a story out about one such attempt or did I dream it?
LEOs are also notoriously corrupt and difficult to keep tabs on. Imagine police harassment when they have the ability to remotely shut off your car.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist...
Not saying they're super common, but as someone who writes software, I don't like the increasing dependency on software implementations of certain components that are fairly simple in their mechanical form.