Earlier this week, a team of researchers from Keen Security Lab – a part of Chinese internet giant Tencent – demonstrated in a video how it had managed to remotely hack a Tesla Model S.In addition to doing things like opening the sunroof and moving the seats by controlling the parked vehicle from a few feet away, the team also showed that it could disable the in-dash control panel, and even engage the brakes from a remote location 12 miles away.
According to TNW, The researchers noted that they were able to do so after they discovered numerous security flaws in Tesla’s vehicle systems and that their remote hacking methods would work on various models of the company’s cars.
The current generation of IoT devices for connected homes already shows theproblems that can arise when security isn’t made a top priority. While issues with those devices can result in us being locked out of our houses or being unable to turn the lights on, cars that can be remotely hacked present a more immediate danger.