• alonsohmtz@feddit.uk
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    10 hours ago

    This is why Americans drive big cars.

    So when a hitman kills their target, it just looks like a regular occurrence.

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    The conditions of the car crash per the NYT:

    Mr. Orta died in a fiery car crash at around 1 a.m. on Saturday when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and struck a utility pole. The car caught on fire and Mr. Orta died before the three other people in the car, including a stepsister, were able to pull him out, Mr. Arriaga said. The crash over the weekend had no connection to the shooting last March.

    According to a preliminary San Antonio police report, which did not name Mr. Orta, the person behind the wheel was driving “at a high rate of speed” when he attempted to exit the highway and lost control of the vehicle.

    Mr. Arriaga got an alert on his phone about the crash and headed to the scene. When he arrived at around 1:30 a.m., he saw a charred vehicle and his injured daughter. “The three of them got out and they were trying to pull him out, but then it exploded,” Mr. Arriaga said.

    Mr. Orta’s stepsister, who suffered several bruises and burns, remained at the hospital, Mr. Arriaga said.

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      19 hours ago

      Cars don’t explode like in movies

      It’s also a huge vulnerability that modern cars have internet connections and could easily trigger the immobilizer or drive it into a wall

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        There are only a handful of models that use a drive-by-wire system where an electronic attack would let you do something like that (Teslas and some models of Humvee are the only ones I know right off I was wrong, both models I was thinking of would not allow this either. There’s only four models in the US where this would be possible.) - pretty much everything else still uses supplementary physical connections to prevent loss of control during a hardware failure. Loss of steering assist or activation of an immobilizer will cause your engine to shut down and your controls to be less responsive, but it does not cause you to lose control of a car and both have a long enough purely mechanical delay to allow you to safely stop the vehicle.

        There’s no way for a remote attacker to “drive your car into the wall” unless you’re using one of those very rare models. Even cars with lane assist are designed so that -mechanically- they cannot override user input.

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          a handful of models

          I’m not saying they did him in because that’s just a conspiracy theory, but your claim is a touch outdated.

          Anything that has lane assist or parking assist, on any model has buss managed controls.

          Manufacturer,Model,Type of Auto Control
          Tesla,Model 3,Autopilot / Full Self Driving
          Tesla,Model Y,Autopilot / Full Self Driving
          Tesla,Model S,Autopilot / Full Self Driving
          Tesla,Model X,Autopilot / Full Self Driving
          Ford,Mustang Mach-E,BlueCruise
          Ford,F-150,BlueCruise
          Ford,Expedition,BlueCruise
          Ford,Escape,Lane Keeping Assist
          GM,Cadillac CT4,Super Cruise
          GM,Cadillac CT5,Super Cruise
          GM,Cadillac Escalade,Super Cruise
          GM,Chevy Silverado,Super Cruise
          GM,GMC Sierra,Super Cruise
          Hyundai,Ioniq 5,Highway Driving Assist
          Hyundai,Ioniq 6,Highway Driving Assist
          Hyundai,Santa Fe,Remote Smart Parking Assist
          Hyundai,Palisade,Remote Smart Parking Assist
          Kia,EV6,Highway Driving Assist
          Kia,EV9,Remote Smart Parking Assist 2
          Kia,Sportage,Lane Keeping Assist
          Kia,Telluride,Highway Driving Assist
          Toyota,Camry,Toyota Safety Sense Lane Keeping
          Toyota,Corolla,Toyota Safety Sense Lane Keeping
          Toyota,RAV4,Toyota Safety Sense Lane Keeping
          Toyota,Highlander,Toyota Safety Sense Lane Keeping
          Honda,Accord,Honda Sensing Lane Keeping
          Honda,Civic,Honda Sensing Lane Keeping
          Honda,CR-V,Honda Sensing Lane Keeping
          Honda,Pilot,Honda Sensing Lane Keeping
          Nissan,Ariya,ProPILOT Assist and ProPILOT Park
          Nissan,Rogue,ProPILOT Assist
          Nissan,Leaf,ProPILOT Assist
          Mercedes-Benz,S-Class,Drive Pilot
          Mercedes-Benz,EQS,Drive Pilot / Active Steering Assist
          Mercedes-Benz,E-Class,Active Steering Assist
          BMW,5 Series,Driving Assistant Professional
          BMW,7 Series,Parking Assistant Professional
          BMW,iX,Highway Assist
          Audi,A6,Lane Assist
          Audi,A8,Parking Assist Plus
          Audi,Q7,Lane Centering and Parking Assist
          Volkswagen,ID.4,Travel Assist
          Volkswagen,Tiguan,Lane Assist
          Volkswagen,Atlas,Lane Assist
          Subaru,Outback,EyeSight Lane Centering
          Subaru,Forester,EyeSight Lane Centering
          Subaru,Crosstrek,EyeSight Lane Centering
          Volvo,XC90,Pilot Assist
          Volvo,XC60,Pilot Assist
          Polestar,Polestar 2,Pilot Assist
          Lexus,RX,Lexus Safety System Plus Lane Centering
          Lexus,NX,Lexus Safety System Plus Lane Centering
          Lexus,ES,Lexus Safety System Plus Lane Centering
          Rivian,R1T,Driver Plus
          Rivian,R1S,Driver Plus
          Lucid,Air,DreamDrive
          
          
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            I think you’ve misunderstood - while there are many models with the ability to steer the car without human input, there are almost none that do not have a direct mechanical link in addition to those systems so that the human can override those controls in the event of malfunction.

            For example, this is the steering colum from a Kia Sportage with lane assist:

            You can see that while it does have supplemental electrical controls, there’s still a purely mechanical connection. I will admit I made an error in my initial post: Teslas do not use steer-by-wire either. As near as I can find there are only four models (in the US) that do not have at least a supplemental direct mechanical connection - and current safety standards make it borderline impossible for new models without that to be legal on US roads.

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          How new is modern? Off the top of my head I remember a bunch of models affected by the Jeep crystler dodge head unit to can bus hack. I’d be suprised if KIA hadn’t fucked it up. And remember, you don’t need steering, you just control of the throttle, maybe the brakes or traction control.

          I don’t think ICE killed this guy(unless he was driving a Tesla then maybe). But the CIA and Mossad like to kill people this way

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          Seeing this coincidentally. I may be wrong about the immobilizer but even having one aspect of the car fail could cause issues if the person isnt expecting it, especially if they are already speeding. Also theres no saying if there could have been physical sabotage to the car or that he was driving something with issues like a recent honda (steering rack issues that cause them to lock up)

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            If you’re defending the idea this was him being killed by ICE - while I personally doubt it was (why would ICE care enough to do this elaborate conspiracy BS that almost failed when they could just, you know, shoot him) - that’s not really needed here, I’m not trying to make a case either way. I’m just pointing out that “hacking a car” can’t, outside of a handful of models, be used by a hacker as an automatic crash button. Even that example you linked to at worst just disabled the engine or the electronic brakes, which wouldn’t inherently cause someone to lose control of a car outside of those very few models (idk if you’ve ever had an engine die while you’re driving, but it really isnt a big deal to manage).

            Pretty much all modern cars cannot be forced to crash by a hacker - maybe, if they’re lurking and waiting until you’re speeding and then disable systems right as you’re turning it could increase the chance of you crashing, but modern cars are also extremely safe in an accident. Even in a tremendously bad incident like the above, everyone survived the impact - he only died because of the resulting fire. And again, he wasn’t the one driving, so his position in the car wouldn’t have been predictable… sorry, he wasn’t the owner of the car? This just doesn’t add up when ICE can just, you know, shoot people and get away with it.

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    Oh this is crazier than I initially imagined. My first gut reaction was conspiracy. If it is then there’s some collateral damage.

    A driver of a blue Ford intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent resulting in him being on the hood of the vehicle.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      The other three in the car including his sister said nothing about anything suspicious, and they surely would have.

      And if you believe that “someone is keeping them quiet”, then all bets are off and nothing anyone says matters. :shrug: