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As we step into the technocratic future , the influx of technology is virtually unavoidable , but the auto industry was immune for some time but now with the introduction of battery and hybrid technologies and clever automation , that gap is slowly diminishing and most modern cars are now full of computers . But with all these new gizmos and gadgets , there is always a hidden danger , this danger sadly is not something like a loose cable or a flat tire , but instead it is completely out of the drivers reach ,and as technology goes forward , the amount of people using it for negative purposes also increase , making a simple task like driving even more scarier . Via - Computerworld The latest revelation comes from a Tesla Model S owner named Nitesh Dhanjani,who by the way is a computer security consultant attending Black Hat Asia security conference in Singapore .Using the internet and a free internet account hacking software , he was able to hack into the Tesla's onboard c...

Just after Nvidia showed off details about their new Tegra Erista mobile processor for 2015 , Audi -which has been a partner with Nvidia since 2012 , rolled a self driving car onto stage .The car , which uses a improved version of the Tegra K1 "Logan" mobile processor was used to demonstrate the processing power of the Nvidia chipset , while showing off Audi's own ingenuity .Previous self driving cars from Audi and other manufacturers used banks of computers where all were stacked in the trunk making the car look more like a experimental vehicle . The new system , using the K1 has a small side pocket where the mobile CPU and its motherboard are kept hidden from view .The K1 cpu however is custom tailored for Audi, but the chip's main  5 Core A15 cores design and the 192 Kepler GPU cores are kept unchanged . The chip runs at  a clockspeed of 2.3Ghz and it has a 8GB LPDDR3 memory . Unlike smartphones , the Audi CPU pocket can be removed and upgraded by simply pluggin...