Cars, like voting machines, have no need to be connected to the internet. Plain and simple.
Yep. Until they encrypt the operating system data this will just continue to get worse and worse.
The gummint is enabling the industry because they believe it will generate new revenue streams or "public favor".
CAFE standards for automotive fuel efficiency has killed tens of thousands of people who would have been alive if the gummint didn't require automakers to make their vehicles less safe by making them lighter.
That didn't even slow them down. They are going ahead with even higher efficiency standards - expected to cause the deaths of tens of thousands more.
Just as the gummint outright killed tens of thousands of people during Prohibition by poisoning the industrial ethyl alcohol supply because large amounts of it were being diverted by gangsters and others to public consumption. The gummint deliberately caused the deaths of thousands of Americans who drank the alcohol either not believing it was poisonous or because gangsters who stole it didn't tell them because they wanted to make money.
The government is our friend. Throughout history they have killed thousands upon thousands of us every year and say all the while that "it is for our own good".