One thing that hasn’t been been mentioned is what kind of security the car’s operating system has. Image what will happen after the first major autonomous car-virus, especially if the virus is malicious rather than merely incidentally introducing bugs. Keep in mind it’s not to hard for a virus to be very malicious since autonomous cars need to know what pedestrians are in order to avoid hitting them.
One thing that hasn’t been been mentioned is what kind of security the car’s operating system has. Image what will happen after the first major autonomous car-virus, especially if the virus is malicious rather than merely incidentally introducing bugs. Keep in mind it’s not to hard for a virus to be very malicious since autonomous cars need to know what pedestrians are in order to avoid hitting them.
Have there been major cell phone viruses? I haven’t heard of many, but maybe I’m just out of the loop.