Just because the actual mass market embraces these things doesn't mean they're good for us all. The skepticism is about how needlessly dependent it makes our individual cars upon a broad shared resources like CDMA and coprorations' servers, in perpetuity.
Tesla drivers locked out of their cars en mass last week because Tesla servers were down? Okay, it's relatively benign, and maybe it has helped people not get locked out of their cars on the whole, versus how often it locked people out of their cars.
But year after year at DEFCON, it is demonstrated that malicious actors can take remote control of your "connected tech" car, while you're driving it. The terrorism potential alone is scary, aside from all of the mildly troublesome tracking and privacy implications.
I'll trade away precooling my car in the summer in favor of exclusively controlling my own vehicle, thanks.
Tesla drivers locked out of their cars en mass last week because Tesla servers were down? Okay, it's relatively benign, and maybe it has helped people not get locked out of their cars on the whole, versus how often it locked people out of their cars.
But year after year at DEFCON, it is demonstrated that malicious actors can take remote control of your "connected tech" car, while you're driving it. The terrorism potential alone is scary, aside from all of the mildly troublesome tracking and privacy implications.
I'll trade away precooling my car in the summer in favor of exclusively controlling my own vehicle, thanks.