"His friends and family that know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma, so that right there doesn't seem like something he'd be doing, there's no way that he'd be acting erratic like that and driving out of control"
According to this article [1], Hastings describes himself as a "a recovering drunk/addict/screw-up." In another True/Slant piece, he says, "I have smoked crack." He crashed a car in a drunk-driving accident at 19.
It's funny how geeks, who pride themselves on rationality, throw Occam's Razor out the window at the drop of a hat.
[1] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/21/LA-Weekly...
I know a guy with at least a dozen cars, including a McLaren F1, drives way more cautiously than most grandmothers I know.
(I used to have a 3,500 lb. coupe, a Pontiac GTO. Now that was fast. It had a 400 HP V8.)
And P.S. Occam's Razor is just a guide line. Many things happen every day that violate it. The US government has murdered people before and tried to cover it up, so it's not beyond the realm of believably or possibility.
I'm not saying this is true; just that it is what people are speculating. Frankly I don't know whether or not it's possible to remotely take over that particular car's steering/acceleration mechanisms.
[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...