During the 17 years this writer worked on braking and stability control
systems, we occasionally joked about being able to remotely update the software
in people's vehicles and bring them to a halt. At that time, the technology
didn't really exist to actually do that. Today that's no longer true.
Researchers the Universities of California and Washington will present a paper
at a security conference in Oakland, California next week outlining how they
were able to hack into vehicle computer systems.
