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I'm posting this link [1] to the Forbes article (Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks) the second time today, but it is also relevant here.

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers...

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Thanks for that link, I guess the days of cutting the brake fluid lines are gone, these days a modern wise guy would just connect up a device to tell the brakes to stop working when the conditions were right (high speed, up coming curve/cliff etc.) I expect to see this in the next Bond film.

I find those software contolled cars very dangerous. I posted a question about them being used as murder weapons [1] 9 months ago, but nobody was interested. And today we have this [2] discussion about the strange car crash resulting the death of Michael Hastings.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709014

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162450

As far as a vehicle being used as a weapon goes, your comment may have felt a bit far-fetched at the time. Now that we know how low the bar is set for government action on citizens domestically, your comment has a much stronger context.

For the past few years I've been happily envisioning us all being chauffeured around in robot-driven cars preferably before my 2 year old is 16... imagining they must be safer. And, I still think that generally, auto-automobiles would be safer. Then I thought more about Michael Hastings (whose murder I incidentally nearly witnessed, traveling down Highland about 10 min after the crash, I could see cops, crashed car, and was diverted onto Melrose)... anyway - that, and then the murderous rampage at Venice Beach over the weekend... I thought - oh GOD! People are totally going to remote control cars as murder weapons. OBVIOUSLY. Ugh.

Michael Hastings (whose murder I incidentally nearly witnessed

A rather large assumption on your part, no?

No.

I'm embarrassed to say I know it features in the latest Fast and Furious movie.

Just pull the ABS fuse if you're worried about someone hijacking your brakes.

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