"This speaks about Internet scale and the vast problems of security we shall face in the coming decades"
Exactly... And the very fact that even people don't see anything wrong with "autonomous cars", probably "because this time the company in charge is going to create a separate network whis is really secure" is precisely part of the problem.
We live in a world were people who are supposed to be smart enough to program all these machines and set up all these infrastructure are thinking: "Nothing can ever go wrong with this".
As a result we have more and more insecurity and the problem is only going to get worse.
And I've got a bridge to sell to people who think that autonomous are never going to get hacked...
Some autonomous cars will be hacked in the future. But it does not mean that they are not a great idea. If we reduce car accidents to half of accidents we have now it would be amazing.
Imagine being able to drink and then return home safely, on your own car. Imagine being able to pick up your kids without having to go, or playing with them instead driving. Or having sex with your significant other instead of driving, or lurking on the internet instead of driving, etc.
Autonomous cars are a huge deal. Some of them being hacked is not a reason to not have them.
> And the very fact that even people don't see anything wrong with "autonomous cars", probably "because this time the company in charge is going to create a separate network whis is really secure" is precisely part of the problem.
Why do autonomous cars need to be on a network at all? The ones I built were never remotely accessible...
So how is your autonomous car going to receive traffic updates, for example? (OK, not 100% technically necessary, but commercially I'd say it's pretty essential...)
I mean rtm's Internet worm was supposed to be the great wake up call - and thirty years later look !