I CAN SEE NO DOWNSIDE!
Posted on 06/15/2014 5:39:24 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
These days, your car isn't a car - it's a rolling computer platform. You don't drive it as much as you give the computer commands and then let it carry them out. That's why the idea of hackers breaking into car computers is so terrifying. You have to see this video showing the scary reality of car hacking.
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I CAN SEE NO DOWNSIDE!
Yes, but I stay out of the hood and don't get on the toad. And bunnies are just for carrying pancakes on their head.
‘91 Jetta Diesel... mechanical injection, no computer... I wish VW would retool and make an identical car... I would pay $50k for it... knowing I would get 325,000 miles on it, no problem.
You’d probably have to go to a 3rd world country where emissions regs are far less stringent, poach the drivetrain, and surreptitiously swap it into a chassis you could register legally in the US.
Just cause it is changing its own oil now is no reason to get rid of it drive it til it dies then put a used or rebuilt engine into it. Good used Toyota engines are available from Japan where they make them change em. Probably just some seals or gaskets going on the oil.
If you’re shopping for a vehicle, ask salesman about vehicle security issues. If sales person acts stupid after showing them the video, then use your wallet to steer the market for safe systems and shop the lot across the street.
Sorry, handbrake-cable operated directly to brakes. No computer is engaging that.
No satellite in my car.
Steering wheel is directly connected to rack and pinion, no computer is turning my car.
I could go on, it’s a 2002.
Just try and hack my ‘55 chevy you geeks!
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2001 here.
But there is a remote kill command via the panic button on the key fob...
When we were shopping around for my vehicle several years ago, I insisted on having onstar. When we went to pick it up, it was lacking onstar so I wasn’t a happy camper. Now, I’m ever so thankful for the mix up.
The car was modified before they could take control. They more or less installed Onstar
On my 2004 Ford, it has,the bus talked about here, but there is no way to turn the steering wheel, except through “hands-on” on the wheel itself.
You can work on the new ones, too ... you just have to become familiar with those systems, just like you had to become familiar with the systems in the old days. It’s different, but it’s not beyond being a backyard mechanic and doing so. It’s just learning and understanding.
It is not so much the actual work it is the diagnostics with so many sensors and computer components the shops have highly expensive computerized diagnostic machines to pinpoint a component gone bad but the old method of throwing parts at something gets expensive quick. Plus I admit the older I get the less want-to I possess.
I’ve gotten similar results from the autocorrect on my Fire.
I just saw a video the other day which showed a hacker causing the steering wheel to turn suddenly.He said it had something to do with the automatic parking feature that some cars have.He said he was able to trick the car's computer into thinking they were in reverse and,having done so,he caused the wheel to turn by itself.IIRC it was in a Prius but I'm not 100% certain of that.It's that video that caused me to ask my original question.
It might be on some cars (like the Google self-driving car), but it’s certainly not on mine. It would be on those cars, however, that can “park themselves” ... :-) ...
Assuming you meant "road" (don't worry,the *Army* taught me how to type) the diesel I just bought is rated at 45mpg (highway) and I've actually gotten 49mpg on a long trip on the Interstate.
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