a lot. You can start by looking up if any of these old timers raised anything remotely similar to that concern. Remember how insanely unprotected the Internet was in the beginning? How SMTP basically still is? That was build by some of the smartest people in the world, and they didn't have the foresight to predict that there might be adversaries, and thus build (in retrospect, quite simple) protections in.
Also, those old timers were wrong about drive by wire, there is zero evidence that it's any less safe than physical linkages.
One of the reasons it would have been extremely difficult to predict, is that the phenomenon of consumer devices having a general purpose computer (and that this might be connected to the rest of the car), much less one networked in any sense, as its interface is pretty new.
I guarantee you that engineers warned PM's about this kind of thing from the start.
>Also, those old timers were wrong about drive by wire, there is zero evidence that it's any less safe than physical linkages.
Let's distinguish drive-by-wire from FADEC (or what amounts to a poor-version of FADEC). An electronic throttle is fine. An electronic throttle that cannot be overridden by a casual user not. It's the implementation that's problematic.
a lot. You can start by looking up if any of these old timers raised anything remotely similar to that concern. Remember how insanely unprotected the Internet was in the beginning? How SMTP basically still is? That was build by some of the smartest people in the world, and they didn't have the foresight to predict that there might be adversaries, and thus build (in retrospect, quite simple) protections in.
Also, those old timers were wrong about drive by wire, there is zero evidence that it's any less safe than physical linkages.
One of the reasons it would have been extremely difficult to predict, is that the phenomenon of consumer devices having a general purpose computer (and that this might be connected to the rest of the car), much less one networked in any sense, as its interface is pretty new.
[edit: added analogy to the internet]