My thoughts exactly. Where was the need for this in the first place? Where was the common sense involved with the planning stage of the software? They should design a self destruct button dangerously close to the radio control as well.
“Where was the need for this in the first place? “
This probably doesn’t have anything to do with the government’s desire to tax drivers by the mile driven. After all, I’m sure everyone will be honest in reporting their mileage...so the government won’t have any need to automatically upload the info.
“Beginning mileage upload now. Please do not turn off your ignition. This will only take a few moments “
“Thank you. Upload is complete. Have a nice day.”
I have my suspicions about how this happened, but it's nothing related to something that belongs on an Art Bell-type conspiracy show. I'm not even suggesting that some nefarious outfit deliberately developed code with the express purpose to put drivers at risk from outside hackers.
My suspicion centers on rank incompetence at the project management and development level -- and where personnel in those groups are based.