Took over the control of driving electric car

Imagine someone from the outside can take control of your car – while driving.

It sounds like something from an action movie, but it’s reality. A group of Czech IT experts have just shown how easy it can be to hack a modern electric car and take control-without touching it.

The so -called White Hat-Hackers, ie « the good » hackers, performed an experiment where they should try to ‘break in’ in a Nissan Leaf from 2020 digitally. The result? It was, to say the least, shocking. It tells the German Tek-Expet, Jorn Schmidt about on his Texide.

Loud music and eavesdropping of conversations

The German tech expert Jorn Schmidt has described in his techside first broke into the car’s infotainment system and could turn on loud music-without the driver’s control.

But scary was also that they had access to the car’s microphones so they could listen to everything that was said from the car.

Worst of all: they steered the car while driving

The most terrifying moment of the demonstration came when the experts showed that they could take over the control of the car while it was driving. They could affect both steering wheel and brakes.

This means that if this vulnerability is exploited by the wrong ones, it can have catastrophic consequences. It doesn’t take much on the highway until it can create an accident.

Fortunately, it was all controlled and aimed to warn the car manufacturer so that the error can be corrected.

But it starts a serious debate: Do the cars become more vulnerable, the more digital they become?

According to the experts, it is not only electric cars that are at risk. All modern cars with electronic systems and network connection can in principle be hacked – and this is something that car manufacturers need to take far more seriously.