These are drive via IP type cars. Honda has a accelerator that uses a blue tooth like sensor in the accelerator pedal that controls the throttle...there is no direct connection from pedal to thottle in their civic. Toyota does something similar. If something is frying the circuitry or perhaps scrambling the electronics, then the engines are going to go haywire. The systems are wireless which makes me wonder if hackers could use a device to remotely reprogram or scramble these systems. I’ll bet space based satellites could do it with sufficiently focused targeting systems.
Bluetooth-like? Come on.
These systems are mechanical-linkage-less, they’re not wireless!
Everything you said is undiluted hogwash.
It is in fact a Drive by Wire system, the same system employed by nearly ever manufacturer.
Signals created by movement of the pedal are sent, via a wire, to the ECU where it is converted into a different signal which opens the throttle body.
It is a fully wired system.
Why would a manufacturer spend hundreds of dollars on a wireless system when 5 cents worth of copper wire will do the same?
The part about possible spaced based hackers causing the problem I will leave to Art Bell.
Cheers,
knewshound
I think there’s a recall on your tinfoil hat.