But Corman cautions that the same automakers have been more focused on competing with each other to install new Internet-connected cellular services for entertainment, navigation, and safety. (Payments for those services also provide a nice monthly revenue stream.) The result is that the companies have an incentive to add Internet-enabled features—but not to secure them from digital attacks.
I think especially with the rise of self-driving cars this is a pretty serious issue.
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user-inactivated: Man. If I ever needed something to show my wife that getting a 5th Gen El Camino is the right thing to do, it's this. "Baby, look. I know you told me 'no.' Read this article and think about it for a minute. There's not computers on an El Camino. It's totally safe. Just don't think about the lack of airbags."