Self-driving car manufactures need to put rivalries aside to fight hackers

Once hackers get into your internet-connected car, they could disable the air bags, brakes, door locks and even steal the vehicle. That’s the finding of researchers who recently uncovered a flaw in the way the different components of a connected car talk to each other. Their work follows several demonstrations of researchers remotely hacking into and taking control of cars, including one that led to a worldwide recall of one connected model of Jeep. None of these hacks have yet been demonstrated with regular vehicles on the road. But they show how cyber security is becoming a big challenge to…

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