RE: Concerns grow amid Tesla crash and burn
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The fact that batteries burn is as disconcerting as the fact that a driverless car crashed.
Electric vehicles were supposed to end the hazards associated with gas vehicles. But anything that contains enough energy to move a car is likely to release the energy in a crash.
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Yes this is a great concern, Imagine a truck. It would become an runaway blazing inferno.
It's concerning.
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Gas powered vehicles catch fire.
The thing that is scary about batteries is that the cars have software and electronic sensors that regulate the batteries. A bug in the software could cause a battery to catch fire. Bug free software doesn't exist.
Hackers are continuously trying to do malicious things to my web server. I often hear stories of hacked web sites. I worry appear about hacking attacks on ev software and the dangers of hacked cars.
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That does sound pretty scary, I hope that doesn't eventuate it would be an easy way to assassinate someone especially with all the inbuilt internet and WiFi in cars these days
Here is a story that says that Tesla changed the battery settings over the air. The article emphasizes that this change was motivated by an abundance of caution.
Tesla claims that batteries are safer than gas; however the very fact that Tesla changed the battery configuration over the air shows that the battery configuration can be changed remotely.
Unfortunately, the problem isn't just restricted to EVs. Most new cars have complex software which can be updated. Is a battery controlled by hacked software anymore dangerous than a fuel injector controlled by hacked software?
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