First, from 2013 - Michael Hastings:
The lunch never happened. At 4:20 a.m. on Tuesday, June 18, Hastings’s silver Mercedes C250 coupe, speeding south on Highland Avenue, crossed Melrose, jumped the median, hit a palm tree, and exploded. The charred body of the driver was identified by the Los Angeles coroner as John Doe 117 until fingerprints confirmed that the deceased was Michael Hastings.
. . . at the time of his death, Hastings was working on a profile of CIA director John Brennan for Rolling Stone.
Second, more recently - Anne Heche:
Except now we know that Anne Heche, who had vowed to expose an elite Hollywood pedophile ring in the days before her bizarre death, was not high on drugs on the day of the fatal car crash.
According to the results of her autopsy which have been obtained by Page Six, the mainstream media was lying about Heche’s state of mind, attempting to smear and discredit her.
. . . First of all, let’s take a look at the video the played by mainstream outlets on the day of the crash.
The media announced Heche was brain dead, but inconvenient facts started leaking out. First of all, Heche was fighting for her life, attempting to get out of the body bag.
Secondly, Anne Heche was talking to firefighters while she was being rescued. It hardly needs spelling out, but brain dead people don’t talk.
And judging by the way the firefighters were acting, many people don’t believe they were firefighters at all. Pay attention to this video. Anne Heche was covered up completely as if dead. She was carried out by firefighters to one of their vehicles, not by paramedics to an ambulance.
. . . and perhaps many others.
In the case below, it was probably an actual, no-malice glitch -- and no one was hurt or killed.
IDK what we can do to protect ourselves from this sort of thing, short of selling our modern cars and driving pre-computerized junkers, but we should at least keep in mind that remote take-over of vehicles IS something that can be done.
Honda said it has been left baffled by an unbelievable near-miss in Minnesota last month when the in-drive computer of a Minnesota teenager's vehicle took over and accelerated him through streets at speeds of up to 113mph.
Sam Dutcher, 18, said he thought he was 'going to die' during the terrifying episode in West Fargo on September 17, which only ended when heroic deputies let him crash into them.
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The recently released movie "Upgrade" seems to be a soft disclosure on the ability to hijack cars via hacking. Its a brilliant scifi movie, and has a lot more than cars being hacked. Highly recommend it for a nice movie evening.
I didn't know the film "Eagle Eye" was a documentary...
Good movie but is 2018 a recent release to you?
Just saying it was 2018 is enough
It was a legitimate question…i mean its recent…relatively
Sorry my bad!
Ty for reposting this video , I had it saved and it disappeared from my comp .
That kid wasn’t hurt smacking into cops at 113 miles an hour ?
The officer pulled in front of him, traveling in the same direction, slows down to probably 110 miles an hour. Relatively soft bump, officer keeps the brakes on, slows both cars down to a stop.
Oh wow, thank you , did the kid call 911 or something. I was wondering how the cop knew the kid wasn’t intentionally driving fast . I looked for article to read but didn’t see it so thank you for letting me know ;)
You’re the best Fren , thank you so much. Not sure I could be talking on the phone ,,if my car took control without me . doing 113 a kid needs a medal ,
Were/are all of these vehicles electric?
Or can they also remotely control gas cars too?
Any car that has telematics (SOS button usually near the rear view on the room) and be hacked and taken over.
There is long and short way to explain but the short way is as follows. All control modules in a modern car are all linked via a computer network called CAN. Basically a local network for all the components in your car.
The throttle pedals went throttle by wire (meaning they are not physically attached to anything) decades ago. The brake systems are also going this way but, even on the cars without brake by wire, the ABS system can still lockout the brake pedal if needed. Steering went electrical years ago too and, just like the brakes, even with a mechanical connection it can still over power you.
Where does this lead you ask? Each of these modules puts their data on the CAN bus during operation. All a hacker has to do is hijack one or more inputs and they can command modules to do whatever they want. With the click of a button they can push full throttle, lock out the mechanical brakes and take control of steering. Add push button start to the mix and now you have no way of turning the car off either.
It's downright scary how easy it is manipulate these systems.
Can you pull out the key to "kill it"?
If it has a real key, sure. Problem is most cars for the last 5-8 years are push button start which can be locked out by the hacker.
I'm good then :D
The problem with taking the key right out is that you can no longer steer because the steering lock will be applied.
--Jocko Willink (Ex-Navy Seal), Extreme Ownership
I can’t stand these new digital shifters pretty much all new cars are including. At least old ones you should be able to shift to neutral and press the parking brake to slow yourself down to a stop. Now they are just buttons that surely can be overridden, including the parking brake.
My Toyota has this.
Was rear ended at high speed a few years back, I was sitting there quietly taking it all in and a voice started talking to me “Are you ok Sir, do you need emergency services?”. It was the SOS thing that kicks in due to an “event”.
I still don’t know how she knew I was a “sir”.
All new models have them as a basic safety “feature”. They definitely need to have a kill switch mandate.
I don't think any of these were electric; all modern cars, gas or electric, have electronic control of accelerator and most now have electronic control to some extent of steering and brakes. And all of that can be hacked through the car's antenna and central computer.
Narg, to answer your question, the only way to help prevent that would be to disable the antenna for the telematics unit or remove the whole thing in order to prevent that from happening.
That's not to say they can't influence the car in other ways but hacking telematics is super easy for hackers.
I've thought about installing a switch that would physically disconnect the antenna from all the electronics in the car. For that matter, I think all cell phones should have such a switch -- not something in software but a physical disconnect from (in this case) the battery.
Don't connect your phone,to your car.
A large number of vehicles from the last 20 years have electronic throttle control. So yes.
And my wife wonders why I have a collection of '90's Jeep Grand Cherokees in the backyard.
Yes the intelligence agencies have had this capability for a while. It was speculated that in the death of Princess Diana. Also when Toyota got ahead of GM at a time of trouble for US carmakers, Toyota suffered from a spate of vehicles undergoing unexplained acceleration. It cost them to settle.
Wow, hadn't thought about that with the Toyata thing. There never really WAS an explanation for it . . .
Outsourcing software strikes again. Saar redeemed.
The entire ethos of the government push for EVs (but not necessarily the intent of all those who make them 😉) is to be in tandem with the Agenda 2030 SDGs. So your car 'reminds' you that your weekly 'carbon credit score' is xyz, and do you really want to drive beyond a certain limit and cause more 'carbon' etc. By attrition to get out of a car full stop and in time, forget you ever needed or even wanted one because, well, what's the point in a 15 minute city. And oh they'll find a use for the crushed lithium cubes, don't worry about that.
I think they did this to Jackie Walorski in IN too.
Does everything go through the touch screen? (if so equipped) Could destruction of the screen disable the hack?
I'm pretty sure not; there are many computers in a modern car and even those that interface with the screen probably wouldn't stop their primary function if the screen were disabled. I'm not saying I know this, but it's not an entirely uneducated guess. You wouldn't want the throttle, brakes, steering, and other functions related to vehicle behavior to be disabled because of a screen problem.
Resto money or new car payments..?
First one is a better investment.
New cars suck, and they're ugly too.
Keep buying imports...