Car electronics

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens | WIRED

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens https://www.wired.com/2016/08/oh-good-new-hack-can-unlock-100-million-volkswagens/ In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them to start the ignition of millions of Volkswagen cars without keys but were hit with lawsuit to delay publication. Now, a →

Protecting GPS From Spoofers Is Critical to the Future of Navigation – IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/protecting-gps-from-spoofers-is-critical-to-the-future-of-navigation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook GPS is very widely used and vulnerable to spoofing. This article gives introduction to GPS and what could be done against spoofing attempts. →

Tesla Autopilot Crash Exposes Industry Divide – IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/what-next-for-teslas-autopilot?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Tesla Autopilot Crash Exposes Industry Divide article says: The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) classifies automation systems from Level 1, sporting basic lane-keeping or anti-lock brakes, through to Level 4, where humans need never touch the wheel (if there is one). The first death of a driver in a Tesla Model S with its →

World’s first electric highway

Renewables are critical to the future of efficient, clean transportation. Sweden just opened the world’s first electric highway article tells that Sweden’s electric long-haul trucks are finally up and running. A pilot study on that first mile is currently underway in the town of Sandviken. The system, which is the first of its kind to open →