“our control was precise, we could make the gauges point to the value of our choosing – even while the truck was in motion” Hardly a week passes, it seems, without a vehicle manufacturer – of trucks, cars or even drones – extolling the virtues of autonomous technology.
However, running parallel has been an undertone of disquiet at the vulnerability of IT systems to malicious outside interference.
Now, US university researchers have hacked a 2006 prime mover’s instrument cluster, power train and engine brake, and they have every confidence a path into trailer controls is possible, their research paper shows.
But, while vulnerabilities have been detected, it is early days in what they say is a unique initial experiment of the process involving heavy commercial vehicles.
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