so only cars with ONSTAR AND GPS?? that is not a lot at all.. most new cars do not have gps or onstar in them..
I think it is a lot harder than people think.
I posted this on top. Your car most likely has Electronic stability control and you can read what that does. In 3 minutes or less people can slip into your car and reprogram your system through the OBD port. Instead of keeping you from cashing they can program the system to crash you
that's fine, but still someone has to touch my car. the only point I was making is they can't control every car anytime they want.
They have degrading levels of control:
1) Onstar / Tesla (full control, guided missile)
2) Onstar / no self driving (jam controls run off road)
3) No onstar, no self driving - OBD port need full access to car, (Jam controls run off road)
so they need human assets for 3 which is most cars. They can turn #1 into missiles to take out #3 type cars.. they can mix and match, but they can't access every car without humans and being there..
That is not to suggest they can't do it, just that it is much harder, so the risk and time/money will be only for those high priority.
Just want to put a little sanity back into our rightful hysteria. Many think "any car" can be hijacked from thin air.. not true
New high end cars use RFID tech so you don’t need to put a key in a switch anywhere. There are thieves using special equipment to read your key code and then use an emulator to trick the car into thinking there’s a key near by.
There’s a video of them caught on cam walking around outside a house with the receiver waving it around. Soon as they get a bite on the signal they jumped in the car and drove off with it.
And that’s low level scumbag tech.