Nicolas Colin and Bruno Palier: Technology doesn't only allow old things to be done better and cheaper; it also opens up new potential business models and the means to satisfy previously unidentified needs.
Rachael King: Vehicle-to-vehicle communications, as envisioned by U.S. regulators, would broadcast the position of every equipped vehicle 10 times per second to similarly equipped cars and trucks within 1,000 feet of each other for the purposes of crash avoidance, said Michael Shulman, a technical leader at Ford, and program manager for CAMP's Vehicle Safety Communications Consortium. Drivers won't need to worry about the technology, because it will be managed automatically.
Andy Greenberg: Nearly all modern vehicles have some sort of wireless connection that could potentially be used by hackers to remotely access their critical systems. The company's protections on those connections are "inconsistent and haphazard" across the industry. And in addition to security weaknesses, Markey's survey also found that many auto companies are collecting detailed location data from their cars and often transmitting it insecurely.
James Comey: The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable.
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