![]() Human-controlled cars will eventually be forbidden to drive on the road, Hypponen said, except for on racetracks. He pointed out that the road might actually be the last place to be overhauled for autonomous vehicles Norway is already exploring an autonomous ferry, while planes are already so automated, even for takeoff and landing, that “the skills of pilots are atrophying”, Hartwig said. New cars already have complex electrical diagnostic systems that include various monitoring systems – so don’t tell a cop you haven’t been speeding, because your car won’t back you up, said Hartwig. Despite car ownership peaking, the number of deaths is actually increasing, he said. Jonathan Matus, CEO of the company behind the Zendrive app, explained how it uses the built-in motion and positioning sensors in smartphones to monitor driving, including rapid acceleration, sharp turns, stop signal compliance – and phone use, which is a major factor in the number of global road deaths each year. Data will be critical to this, allowing policies to be based on precise driving habits, safety and how many miles people actually drive – not just what they say they do. Hartwig also said that there will be an estimated 80% fewer traffic accidents because of the increased safety of autonomous cars. The III estimates that by 2030, 25% of all cars sold will be autonomous, marking a slightly slower pace than Google et al might have you believe. ![]() The legal fees and settlement costs will be more than the cost of the attack.” “This is America, and if you have a breach of personal data, you are absolutely positively going to be sued. Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute (III), says the US market for cyber insurance is growing massively, from $2bn in 2015 to a predicted $7.5bn in 2020. Now they take it seriously – and last year was a wake-up call,” he said of the Jeep hack. “Legacy manufacturers who build cars have a long history of safety but not of security, and that’s why they are starting to learn the hard way. It is the criminals motivated by money that present the biggest threat and are likely to increasingly target self-driving cars the multiple components in cars and lack of rigour by carmakers has made this a pressing issue. Supporters of extremism of which Isis is the only really credible threat thus farĬriminals, who Hypponen says now make as much as 95% of all malware, using hacking to make millions of dollars Nation-states and foreign intelligence agencies, a growing issue over the past 10 years Good “white hat” hackers, who break security so that a weakness can be found, fixed and ultimately improvedĪctivist hackers, like Anonymous, who are politically but not perennially motivated He says there are now generally five types of hackers: “When I entered this field, the hackers had no real motive – they were doing it because they could.” ![]() Hypponen, chief research officer at the Finnish security firm F-Secure, told an audience at SXSW that in the 25 years he had worked in cybersecurity, he had seen a big shift in the type of people who do the hacking, as well their motivations.
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