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> These guys are elite, their demo was badass, and I've done stupider things on I-40 for no reason.

"Elite," seriously? Is it 1995? Is the movie "Hackers" some type of inspiration to you? I'm almost surprised you didn't go all l33t speak.

They endangered people's lives. It is as simple as that. If you too endanger people's lives "for no reason" on I-40 I hope they get you too.




"You're doomed!" I'm imagining these clowns giving each other high-fives and teabagging their laptop as a traffic pile-up ensues.


Jeep and uConnect have endangered people's lives – likely an order of magnitude more people. If it's as simple as that, do you support criminal charges for them too? Because playing in traffic almost seems more intelligent than hooking hundreds of thousands of multi-ton vehicles up to the internet.


They demonstrated that hackers can take lives using a laptop and a cell phone. And they displayed their own picture on the dashboard screen while doing it.

Yes, elite. I'm not bringing it back; they already did.


They could have demonstrated that in a closed parking lot, and not a real highway.




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