House row examines reserve risks and advantages of a ‘Internet of Cars’
WASHINGTON — Technology that connects cars to a Internet has a intensity to forestall crashes and save thousands of lives, though it also could allow hackers to grab control of vehicles and use them as weapons, experts told a House row Wednesday.
“We’re entering a new, sparkling era, though we wish to be prepared for it,” pronounced Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., management of a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Transportation during a conference on a “Internet of Cars.”
The full slip cabinet is perplexing to settle what, if any, sovereign legislation should be passed to umpire cybersecurity and remoteness in Internet-connected cars.
The biggest growth to come in a nearby destiny  — vehicle-to-vehicle communication — has a intensity to help prevent adult to 80% of crashes involving dual or some-more cars, pronounced Nathaniel Beuse, associate executive for automobile reserve investigate during a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, that is building reserve manners for a new technology.
The record would concede cars to promulgate with one another, sharing their GPS positions, speeds and direction. The vehicles would advise drivers that their cars are about to collide. If a driver does not respond quickly, the record would take over to apply a car’s brakes or change steering.
“New technologies such as vehicle-to-vehicle communications and programmed automobile technologies have a intensity to dramatically change a reserve design in a United States by assisting drivers equivocate crashes in a initial place,” Beuse testified.
In 2013, there were over 5.7 million engine automobile crashes in a United States, and 32,719 people died in vehicle-related crashes, Beuse said.
But connected cars also could make drivers vulnerable to hackers, warned Khaliah Barnes, associate executive and executive law warn of a Electronic Privacy Information Center.
“Cars can be remotely hacked and tranquil from anywhere in a universe around a Internet,” she said. “Wireless hacking can also give hackers entrance to a car’s earthy plcae controlling built-in GPS navigation systems, that would promote crimes such as harassment, stalking, and automobile theft.”
Identity thieves also could hack their approach by a mechanism systems of a connected-car to take drivers’ credit label numbers, home addresses, and other personal information, Barnes said.
“Every day but automobile remoteness and reserve protections places large drivers during risk of carrying their personal information — or worse, their earthy safety — compromised,” she said.
Car makers pronounced they are operative with a National Institute of Standards and Technology to rise clever cybersecurity practices and urged lawmakers not to rise resistant regulations that might suppress innovation.
“If we have a leisure to innovate…the guarantee of a destiny can't be illusory today,” pronounced Harry Lightsey, executive executive of tellurian connected patron knowledge for General Motors.
Barnes urged cabinet members to pass legislation that would guarantee drivers’ remoteness rights, settle polite fines for a antagonistic hacking of vehicles, and extend rule-making management to a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to settle safeguards for connected vehicles.
“Congress contingency act quickly to fight a stream and destiny remoteness threats acted by a Internet of Cars,” she said.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., introduced a Spy Car Study Act this month that would umpire automotive program safety, cybersecurity and privacy. The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., would need a National Highway Safety Transportation Commission to control a one-year investigate to suggest a horizon for controlling automotive program safety, cybersecurity and privacy.
“Americans have a right to expostulate cars that are stable and stable from hackers,” Lieu said. “Frankly, but adequate protections, a hacker could spin a automobile into a weapon.”
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