Joshua Orta was planning on cooperating with investigators hired by the family of his friend, Ruben Ray Martinez, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent last year, according to a report
Seeing this coincidentally. I may be wrong about the immobilizer but even having one aspect of the car fail could cause issues if the person isnt expecting it, especially if they are already speeding. Also theres no saying if there could have been physical sabotage to the car or that he was driving something with issues like a recent honda (steering rack issues that cause them to lock up)
If you’re defending the idea this was him being killed by ICE - while I personally doubt it was (why would ICE care enough to do this elaborate conspiracy BS that almost failed when they could just, you know, shoot him) - that’s not really needed here, I’m not trying to make a case either way. I’m just pointing out that “hacking a car” can’t, outside of a handful of models, be used by a hacker as an automatic crash button. Even that example you linked to at worst just disabled the engine or the electronic brakes, which wouldn’t inherently cause someone to lose control of a car outside of those very few models (idk if you’ve ever had an engine die while you’re driving, but it really isnt a big deal to manage).
Pretty much all modern cars cannot be forced to crash by a hacker - maybe, if they’re lurking and waiting until you’re speeding and then disable systems right as you’re turning it could increase the chance of you crashing, but modern cars are also extremely safe in an accident. Even in a tremendously bad incident like the above, everyone survived the impact - he only died because of the resulting fire. And again, he wasn’t the one driving, so his position in the car wouldn’t have been predictable… sorry, he wasn’t the owner of the car? This just doesn’t add up when ICE can just, you know, shoot people and get away with it.
Seeing this coincidentally. I may be wrong about the immobilizer but even having one aspect of the car fail could cause issues if the person isnt expecting it, especially if they are already speeding. Also theres no saying if there could have been physical sabotage to the car or that he was driving something with issues like a recent honda (steering rack issues that cause them to lock up)
If you’re defending the idea this was him being killed by ICE - while I personally doubt it was (why would ICE care enough to do this elaborate conspiracy BS that almost failed when they could just, you know, shoot him) - that’s not really needed here, I’m not trying to make a case either way. I’m just pointing out that “hacking a car” can’t, outside of a handful of models, be used by a hacker as an automatic crash button. Even that example you linked to at worst just disabled the engine or the electronic brakes, which wouldn’t inherently cause someone to lose control of a car outside of those very few models (idk if you’ve ever had an engine die while you’re driving, but it really isnt a big deal to manage).
Pretty much all modern cars cannot be forced to crash by a hacker - maybe, if they’re lurking and waiting until you’re speeding and then disable systems right as you’re turning it could increase the chance of you crashing, but modern cars are also extremely safe in an accident. Even in a tremendously bad incident like the above, everyone survived the impact - he only died because of the resulting fire. And again,
he wasn’t the one driving, so his position in the car wouldn’t have been predictable…sorry, he wasn’t the owner of the car? This just doesn’t add up when ICE can just, you know, shoot people and get away with it.