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Single Hack Could Put All Tesla Cars Under Rogue Control
- By The Financial District
- Feb 15, 2022
- 2 min read
Elon Musk’s “full-self driving” feature is installed in thousands of Tesla cars has run into some problems.
Photo Insert: A Tesla Model 3
The Tesla CEO has made clear that this automated driving software doesn’t mean the vehicles can drive themselves and has warned that drivers should pay full attention when using these cars, Jacob Paul reported for UK’s Daily Express.
The multi-billionaire has come under fire over the flaws in the technology as 579,000 vehicles with the software have been recalled over safety fears. But Dan O'Dowd, a tech expert and CEO of Green Hills Software, has warned that there may be a bigger issue on the horizon.
He claims that if these vehicles are hacked into, chaos could be unleashed. O’Dowd told Express.co.uk: “Tesla putting self-driving cars on the Internet, what could go wrong? They could get hacked. All the Tesla are running the same software every day.” He was already furious with Musk over the faults that appeared in Tesla’s full self-driving (FSD) cars. “FSD does not just roll slowly through stop signs, it also swerves into oncoming traffic and must be banned from our roads altogether."
But he feared if these cars were hacked into, it could spell far more danger on the way. He told Express.co.uk: “If you find a way to hack one of those cars and gain control through the Internet, you could hack them all because they all have the same bug. And they are all on the internet so you can talk to the internet so you can inject the bug into them and take control of all the Teslas. If they (hackers) can take control of all of the Teslas, they could take every Tesla.“
O’Dowd warned that this could have disastrous consequences. He told Express.co.uk: “Self-driving, it knows how to get out onto the roads, and all the millions of Tesla’s could find the nearest busy road and find the wrong side of the road. There would be a million two-ton killing machines that can go 100-plus miles an hour.”
