How many ECUs do you reckon your car has on board?
One or two? As many as a dozen?
According to Hans Roth, of tech giant Harman, modern cars can have 120 ECUs operating them. That’s how far we’ve already done down the road towards driving self-propelled computers.
Of course, as autonomous driving becomes reality these computers will become ever-more interconnected. And that raises the spectre of hacking.
Last year, Fiat Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles after a pair of hackers were able to take control of a Jeep Grand Cherokee via the mobile phone network – to the degree that they could disable its brakes and even take over its steering.
And Harman is alert to the threat. It recently bought two software security companies – and subsequently launched a new anti-hacking package. For the full article click here
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