Hacking a Car. Brakes Controlled by Hacker.

A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you’re driving. 

Hackers are able to control a vehicle’s:

• A/C system, changing the temperature in the car
• The radio, changing channels and volume control
• Windshield wipers
• Windshield washer fluid blurring the windows
• dashboard functions
• steering
• brakes
• transmission

All of the car functions above can be controlled from a laptop by a nefarious hacker. Wired. Congress is trying to stop it with the Spy Car Act.