This doesn't surprise me at all... the thing not said is your car can be shut off at someone's whim or with the self driving ones lock the people inside and take them where ever the one's behind the keyboard wants them. I'll stay with my old Toyota pickup.

Not to mention commuting murder by hacking your car though GPS satellite and disabling your brakes and steering wheel while dong 65 on de interstate.

That too... but some would say that's nothing more than a conspiracy theory. Theory or not there have been some rather suspicious car accidents of people that were going to testify in front of Congress till they met their demise in a fiery crash of an EV or some other high technology car.

The fact that the label Conspiracy Theory is used to shoot down an idea is reason enough to look deeper into it.
The phrase Conspiracy Theory was a dog whistle pushed by the CIA to shame people from putting 2 and 2 together.

You are exactly correct. As I remember the CIA started using it in the mid 60s.

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