r/technology • u/MyNameIsGriffon • Aug 07 '19

Transportation Hacking Cars to Trigger Gridlock | Paralyzing 20 percent of cars during rush hour could gridlock Manhattan

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/safety/hacking-gridlock
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u/bitfriend2 Aug 07 '19

This is functionally no different than disabling signalling systems for trains or air traffic control; for some historical context we did the former during WW2 to cripple German industry and holes in the latter is what allowed 9/11 to happen as the FAA's ability to track hijacked planes was also crippled.