{"id":275486,"date":"2017-02-16T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5088e445c7291f9ebdbeed6c09d7148b"},"modified":"2017-02-16T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:56:14","slug":"the-cybersecurity-risk-of-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=275486","title":{"rendered":"The cybersecurity risk of self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020, according to an in-depth report by Business Insider Intelligence. Proponents of autonomous vehicles say that the technology has the potential to benefit society in a range of ways, from boosting economic productivity to reducing urban congestion. But others\u2014including some potential consumers and corporate risk managers\u2014have expressed serious concerns over the cybersecurity of the so-called fleet of the future. As one tech reporter put it: &#8220;Could cybercriminals remotely hijack an autonomous car&#8217;s electronics with the intent to cause a crash? Could terrorists commandeer the vehicles as weapons? Could data stored onboard be unlocked?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020, according to an in-depth report by Business Insider Intelligence. Proponents of autonomous vehicles say that the technology has the potential to benefit society in a range of ways, from boosting economic productivity to reducing urban congestion. But others&mdash;including some potential consumers and corporate risk managers&mdash;have expressed serious concerns over the cybersecurity of the so-called fleet of the future. As one tech reporter put it: &#8220;Could cybercriminals remotely hijack an autonomous car&#8217;s electronics with the intent to cause a crash? Could terrorists commandeer the vehicles as weapons? Could data stored onboard be unlocked?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275487,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275486\/revisions\/275487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}