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NHTSA Launches Anti-Hacking Research Unit
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has created an office to study security risks in vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has created an office to study security risks in vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems.
NHTSA Administrator David Strickland tells a U.S. Senate committee the unit is a preemptive step to address potential cyber security risks before hackers attempt to break into so-called v2v safety features that enable vehicles to warn each other of crash threats.
"If there is a chance of it happening, we have to address it," Strickland tells reporters.
The agency's announcement also is an effort to address criticism in 2010 that NHTSA lacked sufficient in-house expertise about automotive electronics to assess complaints that some Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles accelerated spontaneously.
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