I was really surprised at an item in the GEM magazine over hacking into car computer systems.
In 2015 hackers got to a Chrysler Jeep and in the 12 mths Chrysler spent fixing the problem the hackers uprated their attack and got through where Chrysler had not anticipated. Tesla were hacked by 3 Chinese hackers over 12 miles from the car, Tesla claim to have fixed it. A security expert with IBM discovered he could still access and unlock his old car even after undertaking a full factory reset and wiping all of his personal information from the car's computer, by logging into his smartphone app re enabled all the data and there was nothing the manufacturer could do. The data was eventually erased. Nissan's head of development 'even if a team could engineer an autonomous car to deal with 99% of the sort problematic scenarios that currently flummox them the remaining 1% would be, by their definition, even more complicated and difficult to navigate. Some scenarios, he posits, are so complex that only a human brain will be able to navigate their way through.'
I hope the writer Carlton Boyce will forgive some of my paraphrasing but it is a long article.
So at the end of the day, cars will still need a driver and those that have raised the security problems of keyless entry, it seems are only seeing the beginning of problems with data in car computers whether powered by ICE or Electricity. It seems it doesn't even have to be an autonomous vehicle as car computer hacking is becoming a very big problem.