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The fix is a software update since the hood ajar detector may malfunction. I wonder what a good Russian hack could do to our modern vehicles, the fix is done over the air, so a hack could do many things? Set cruise at say 160kph while disabling your brake cruise shutoff and maybe just turning off you brakes? Or maybe shutting down all vehicles at once? Over juice the batteries, starting a fire? Turning off electric steering or drive by wire? Endless possibilities. 

When I sit in my vehicles, I can see and hear a loose hood, my sensors work good so far. In a world when we rely on tech to do everything, if the hood in my Tesla flies up, I guess I could sue?



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Bring back hood pins with lanyard cables, just like the 1970-72 Chevelle SS.

Instead of a tin foil hat, how about a tin foil car cover?

Hinky air-drops are not a new thing, and are not going away.

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Welcome to the modern world, where electronics control everything and the internet facilitates it.  Now some dude in India can steal your money without ever seeing your face, organizations can have their functionality held hostage, and a software design team missing one possibility for failure can cause a recall.

I'm not a fan, TBH, but it does allow 'us' to do more than we ever could have dreamed of in the past, but the benefits are not without drawbacks (they never are).  We have to get used to it, because we will be drawn into it whether we want it or not.  It is what it is.



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