But when there isn't a steering wheel, there
isn't break peddles, like you know, many years
from now, then
it's really dangerous. Even as it is right
now, what we spend most of our time on is
making sure that it's
very difficult to do a multi-car hack. Like,
if you have direct access to a car, just like
if you got
direct access to a computer or even a conventional
car, you can do a lot of things to it. But
that's less
of a concern than someone being able to hack
an arbitrary car or multiple cars, so that's
what we focus our
energy on, is making sure that that- and in
that way it's a lot like a cell phone or a
lap top, you know, you focus on making sure
that they can't, or that it's very difficult
for there to be any kind of system-wide hack.
So we put a lot
of effort into that and we have 3rd parties
try to attack it, and that certain parts of
the car at the very
fundamental level, like the drive unit controller
or the steering controller have an additional
level of
security. So somebody may be able to hack
something that's cosmetic, but it's much harder
to hack something
that's actually physically dangerous.
