On December 4, 2017, at a little before nine in the morning, an executive at Goldman Sachs was swiping through the day’s market report in the backseat of a hired SUV heading south on the West Side Highway when his car suddenly swerved to the left, throwing him against the window and pinning a sedan and its driver against the concrete median.... Moments later, on the George Washington Bridge, an SUV veered in front of an 18-wheeler, causing it to jackknife across all four lanes and block traffic heading into the city. The crashes were not a coincidence.... At the center of each accident was an SUV of the same make and model.

A chilling and imaginative horror story peppered with links to similar events in the real world. I followed up on what seemed the most preposterous claim, that bad actors could remotely crash cars, based on a July 2015 Wired article about a vulnerability in the Jeep Cherokee which enabled hackers to control the stereo, adjust the climate control, and disable the transmission if they could learn the IP address of the UConnect system. "The researchers say they’re working on perfecting their steering control—for now they can only hijack the wheel when the Jeep is in reverse." A few days later, Fiat Chrysler issued a recall to owners of 1.4 million affected vehicles.