The Next Challenge in Automotive Safety: Cyber Security

摘要

Today's cars and trucks are safer, smarter, better-performing and more efficient than ever-thanks to continuous advances in technology, engineering ingenuity and consumer demand. Next-generation models will be even more sophisticated, with myriad automated functions, including the ability to share information with each other, the roadside infrastructure, local businesses and just about everything else. Well-equipped vehicles already contain as much as 100,000 lines of software code. By 2017 more than 60% of new vehicles are expected to be connected to the Internet. But the new array of controllers, sensors, computer chips and connected systems also make vehicles vulnerable to a growing threat: hackers. While long a concern for businesses and consumers, hackers are relatively new to the auto industry.