The next era of cars i.e. driverless cars or self-driven cars came into the spotlight particularly after hackers showed Chrysler how easy self-driven cars hacking was. This resulted in huge costs for Chrysler; it has to pay for fixes on its 1.4 million self-driven jeeps.
But now security experts have worked on this topic and raised some arguments in contrary to the question: Do you think that self-driven cars are more prone and vulnerable to attack by hackers?
Well, the answer to this question is obviously YES for most of the users. Obviously in a human driven car, there are hands on steering wheel and feet on the pedals to trust on but what is it about a self-driven or driverless car that makes it safe? Is self-driven cars hacking impossible?
The answer to this question has been provided in detail by a security expert, Craig Smith, who works as the head of transportation research at security firm Rapid7 and also works at evening as the owner at the world’s largest hacking convention in Las Vegas named as the Car Hacking Village at Defcon.
He quotes:
“One interesting thing about fully self-driving cars is they’re unintentionally more secure, which is really not what you would expect at all.”
His company and expertise have enabled him to know how to breach the autopilot of Tesla’s self-driven cars and much more. However, he believes that now with the passage of time, the attitude of hackers seen as dangers to the manufacturer’s products to be part of self-driven cars hacking, are now seen as potential allies who can work with the company to remove as many bugs as possible.
An example of this are the steps by Mazda in the manufacture of its driverless cars. They admit that the electronic systems are yet not perfect and they invite valuable suggestions by hackers or security experts to make their products commercially viable and strong.
He admits that the future of self-driven cars will never be a cent percent safe but at least he believes that companies working alongside the hackers will at provide a lot of help. This will ultimately increase the trust of people on self-driven cars and the industry can then flourish.
