Tesla Remotely Hacked With Goal To Prove No Car Is Safe

Just days after Tesla’s Elon Musk said his firm was close to being ready to roll out autonomous vehicles, a hacker has taken control of a Tesla Model S, remotely turning off the car as it was driving at a low speed.   Tesla hacked as cybersecurity conference approaches Cybersecurity researchers Kevin Mahaffey, chief technology officer of Lookout, and Marc Rogers, principal security researcher at Cloudflare, remotely took control of a Tesla vehicle to show that a variety of vehicles with internet connected capabilities, not just Fiat Chrysler, were at risk. “We shut the car down when it was driving…