Hackers could blackmail owners of self-driving cars - Dr Alexander Kröller, TomTom | Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission

Hackers could blackmail owners of self-driving cars - Dr Alexander Kröller, TomTom | Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission
Automated vehicles have the potential to revolutionise our day-to-day lives, but these kind of cyber-physical systems are vulnerable to attack by criminals. Horizon spoke with Dr Alexander Kröller, a research manager at Dutch navigation company TomTom, to explore the risks that hacking and viruses pose to self-driving cars.