> It's considerably easier to physically tamper with a car, such as the good old Hollywood standby of cutting brake lines.
It's only hard to exploit a serious security flaw the first time. Until they close it, it's relatively easy to exploit it thereafter.
The relative lethality seems likely to favour the software option too. Personally I doubt I'd get above 10mph before I tried using my brakes - (manoeuvring into and then out of my road.) Compared to, 'Wait until you're on the motorway and accelerate as hard as you can into oncoming traffic.' I don't see too many people walking away from the latter case - the closing speed would be something like 190mph, disregarding braking on the part of the oncoming traffic.
It's only hard to exploit a serious security flaw the first time. Until they close it, it's relatively easy to exploit it thereafter.
The relative lethality seems likely to favour the software option too. Personally I doubt I'd get above 10mph before I tried using my brakes - (manoeuvring into and then out of my road.) Compared to, 'Wait until you're on the motorway and accelerate as hard as you can into oncoming traffic.' I don't see too many people walking away from the latter case - the closing speed would be something like 190mph, disregarding braking on the part of the oncoming traffic.