If a hacker were to bring in a malware-harboring car for service, the vehicle could spread that infection to a dealership’s testing equipment, which in turn would spread the malware to every vehicle the dealership services

Source: www.wired.com

Here’s a case were the car’s built-in software has to be protected by some “secure boot” process, otherwise the source of intrusion will be immaterial. It seems cars are so attractive to hack now, yet rarely any real cases have been reported. Get ready for a less convenient startup process for you car – for safety and security sake.

The kit is made of two parts: an on-board, car stereo-sized graphics processor packed with image-recognition software, and a larger server which sits at a carmaker’s autonomous car testing lab.

Source: blogs.wsj.com

Great media coverage for NVIDIA, while never claiming to be part of Google’s research project, they have great marketing presence for such a small company in automotive. The question will be around whether graphics processing is the way to establish production self-driving systems. Heat may become an issue at scale.