On: What do you do if a hacker takes control of your s...

[petertodd]

To be clear, ships have been using drive by _wire_ systems for decades. Even in WW2 rudder control on liberty ships was partially electronic: https://surveyship.blogspot.com/2015/09/liberty-ship-or-vict...

Of course, there's a _very_ big difference between a drive-by-wire system that has a set of dedicated electric wires with some simple communication scheme, and a networked, potentially hackable, system based on UDP packets.