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A clever idea with unintended consequences.

Now my docked phone in navigation mode is disabled, and I have to fumble for the airplane mode switch to then it back on, distracting me.

Or, my passenger, texting urgent details to someone else while plugged in to power, loses connection and doesn't realize. His message, "don't delete pied piper," never makes it to staff and a startup is ruined.

Or, the cell phone hidden the in the car by a jealous husband gets switched off, convincing him that the jig is up and an unstable situation turns grim.

Google and Apple should treat this as a security vulnerability. I think there were pranks related to Xbox voice control as well.




That's golden. It's like social engineering SQL injection. Fun stuff!

I wonder if there's any sort of sentence you can make that isn't actually "xbox shut off" but is interpreted by the xbox as such.


Oh like when you mouth "olive juice" to someone it looks like "I love you".

Perhaps something like "Ex Blocks Shout Ov".


If the OP is unauthorized access to a computer system this certainly is. Should these boys go to prison?


It's not really. No one is forcing the users to shout at him.


I remember there was an xbox ad that had the unintended consequence of controller the viewer's xbox


The "Hey Siri" feature is something that must be enabled, so that is one way to thwart this Toyota hacking attempt.


As a driver, the only thing you have to do is pay complete attention to the road and drive safely. It is not Toyota's fault if you stop doing that to fuck with your phone, even if they disabled your nav.


"As a driver, the only thing you have to do is pay complete attention to the road and drive safely. It is not the company's fault if they played an ad that's just sirens and horns and people screaming, distracting you."


If I could legally ban one thing in music, it would definitely be car horns and emergency vehicle sounds. There's nothing more annoying than hearing a horn and trying to decide if you need to emergency stop now, or if it was just some idiot deciding to put it in their music. Especially if you stream/shuffle and have no idea what song is coming up next.


That's a valid point, because no one listens to music when they're not in a car, ever.


It's great how sarcasm tags are not needed and people don't take obvious exaggeration seriously even once in their entire lives.


And it's not Toyota's job to tell us what we should and shouldn't be doing while driving.


If that's true, then why do Toyotas have radios?




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