Automotive security and safety [LWN.net]

Automotive security and safety

Posted Feb 12, 2016 13:16 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Automotive security and safety by robbe
Parent article: Automotive security and safety

>My naive engineering solutions would be to boot the IVI system once the car is unlocked – if you are going from opening the door to turning wheels in less than five seconds you are probably missing a lot in the diligence department…

Or even more naive -- boot the IVI system as soon as the battery is hooked up, and leave it in a low-power/suspended state when the ignition is off. Either way that would mean disabling the fancy animated boot splash/logo that seems to be the norm on modern IVI systems.

As far as lane overviews are concerned, it's more to do with denoting the car's actual width, especially as those reverse cameras are so wide-angle that they tend to distort perspective.

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Automotive security and safety

Posted Feb 23, 2016 15:47 UTC (Tue) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link] (1 responses)

Or how about making the restriction sensible? For safety it is entirely irrelevant how long after boot the camera comes on. For safety it matters that the camera is on BEFORE the car accelerates beyond a speed of 0. So simply don't activate the gas pedal until the camera has been on for, say, 3 seconds. That way any delays are an issue of an irrelevant delay of a few seconds and not dead kids under your car...

Automotive security and safety

Posted Feb 23, 2016 19:52 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

A brilliant idea, sure. A camera craps out (a loose cable or something) and the car is undriveable.