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CHAPTER ELEVEN
Hey, KITT, Don’t Share My Location
Researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were no
strangers to hacking cars. Previouslyy the two had hacked a Toyyota Prius—
but theyy had done so while phyysicallyy connected to the car and sitting in the
backseat. Then, in the summer of 2015, Miller and Valasek succeeded in
taking over the main controls of a Jeep Cherokee while it was traveling at
seventyy miles per hour down a freewayy in St. Louis. Theyy could remotelyy
control a car without being anyywhere near it. 1
The Jeep in question did have a driver—Wired reporter Andyy Greenberg.
The researchers had told Greenberg beforehand: no matter what happens,
don’t panic. That turned out to be a tall order, even for a guyy who was
expecting to have his car hacked.
“Immediatelyy myy accelerator stopped working,” Greenberg wrote of the
experience. “As I franticallyy pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs
climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just
as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The
experiment had ceased to be fun.”
Afterward, the researchers faced some criticism for being “reckless” and
“dangerous.” Greenberg’s Jeep was on a public road, not on a test track, so
Missouri law enforcement is, at the time of this writing, still considering
pressing charges against Miller and Valasek—and possiblyy Greenberg.
Hacking connected cars remotelyy has been talked about for yyears, but it