This week’s #WayBackWednesday brings us back to Germany in the 80’s and 90’s to introduce “VaMP”. VaMP was one of the earliest, fully autonomous automobiles. Developed by a team lead by Ernst Dickmann, the car drove itself over 1000 kilometers at speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour using computer vision.
In VaMP’s time, the use of computers in cars was extremely rare. But since the mid-1990s, computers have been added to different parts of the automobile to assist with various aspects of our driving experience such as braking, environmental control, fuel injection, mobile connectivity, etc. And, with time, these computers have been networked with protocols such as CAN, FlexRay, LIN, MOST, etc.
What could go wrong? Check out some of our past BSides Munich talks for some insights!
- Sivaranjani Sankaralingam‘s talk, ”Keeping Electric Vehicles Secure: the need for a CAN security framework” https://youtu.be/kG8AbV8t0K4?feature=shared
- Javier Vasquez and Ethan Briggs’s talk, “Attacks on Automotive Diagnostics” https://www.youtube.com/live/OVbzlN3evzo
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