Makes me wonder if Hastings had been drugged.
The rest of the Press needs to figure out what story he was working on and get it out.
There’s a lot of stuff the Admin doesn’t want out.
I can tell you from experience that this isn’t far fetched:
You can hack a car, since a car is a computer.
Why is it that I know this?
Someone tried to hack my son’s insulin pump, and succeeded. He pushed the max bolus limit to 100 units of insulin. My son caught it when he heard the beeps coming from the pump. If the hacker had been a little more skilled, he may have been able to silence the pump before changing the max bolus and then initiated a massive bolus.
I know for a fact you can hack any heavy commercial aircraft and lock out the pilot - Boeing or Airbus. I saw it demonstrated at a BlackHat conference, and I have the powerpoint if you want it. The entire purpose of the demo was to illustrate the complete lack of network safeguards on most programmable vital systems.
So, could someone have hacked his ride, tracked it, and then locked out his brake while maxing his accelerator?
Maybe, and I’d go so far as to say probably.
Did it happen?
Depends on whether you can wipe a black box remotely. His model probably had one.