> No one pushing this seems to be really concerned with the security, or
> the safety of the user interfaces.

there are a few ways this could change.

- a single senator/congressman has their ride hacked/bricked
- several people die in fiery car wrecks from bad code or a virus
- a self-propagating virus bricks millions of cars

so... the question is if should we wait for bad things to happen to
lots of people or should we brick one jerk's limo.

--Gravis


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:50:53PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote:
>> IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI.
>
> The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well
> debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago?
>
> Well, what scares me it that the entertainment hardware doesn't seem to
> be isolated from the more essential stuff that actually, you know,
> drives that car. And the entertainment stuff is just being piled on
> willy-nilly. And there are now touch screens that you have to use
> while driving. Whatever happened to keeping one's eyes on the
> road?
>
> No one pushing this seems to be really concerned with the security, or
> the safety of the user interfaces.
>
> -- hendrik
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