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New technology leaves cars vulnerable to being manipulated without an owner’s knowledge, a security expert has warned.

should do more to increase the safety of vehicles whose software can be updated over the air, according to a cybersecurity expert, because current technology leaves cars vulnerable to being manipulated without an owner’s knowledge.

“Purely from the design of an always-connected vehicle, that threat, which didn’t exist before, now does,” she said. Car makers are also developing their own operating systems. Toyota is working on one called Arene that it expects to deploy in cars in 2025, while Volkswagen’s own software is called VW.os. Honda and Nissan agreed last month to team up on so-called software-defined vehicles.

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