In my professional capacity in IT, I’d want to establish how the mother-F it came to be that a software development group implemented a means to control our vehicle’s speed and brakes and exposed it via cellular communication to the outside world.
After review, I’d separate from the company everyone up and down the enterprise who had a hand in this, from the original ISR creator, functional specification signers, and developers/integrators. Only those who would survive would be those who could show me that they objected to it by saying something along the lines of “This is a really bad and reckless idea”, even if they ultimately signed off on it.
They’d walk out of the company under legal threat but with a suitable severance package — on contingency, of course.
It’s an offshoot of the automatic parallel parking feature. Once you’re in the CAN bus, and you know the address of the various control nodes for accelerator, steering, and braking, you’re in.
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.