Bluetooth Controlled Planes and Cars

[Tuckerfan]

It sounds like a good idea.

A plane with no wires or mechanical connections between its engine, navigation system and onboard computers – only a wireless network – has been built and flown by engineers in Portugal.
The 3-metre-long uncrewed plane ‘AIVA’ relies entirely upon a Bluetooth wireless network to relay messages back and forth between critical systems – a technique dubbed ‘fly-by-wireless’.
Tests flights carried out in Portugal have shown that the system works well. Cristina Santos, at Minho University in Portugal, who developed the plane, says the aim is primarily to reduce weight and power requirements. ‘Also, if you do not have the cables then the system is much more flexible to changes,’ she says.

But wait, there’s more.

But Santos and colleagues are working on this. She says Bluetooth is already fairly resistant to disruption as it is designed to guarantee a certain minimum data stream will always get through. “It has mechanisms for dealing with interference,” she says.
In-car radio
Even so, Santos says the system would need extensive testing before she would be willing to ride in a fly-by-wireless plane. She also admits that stringent aviation regulations may mean the technology first appears in cars rather than planes.

I’ve got a better idea: Don’t use it at all. Why? You ask. Because Bluetooth ain’t what I’d call “secure.”

The gun, which is called the BlueSniper rifle, can scan and attack Bluetooth devices from more than a mile away. The first version of the gun showed up at Defcon 2004, a hacker/computer security convention held annually in Las Vegas.

(Note that the link contains everything you need to know to be able to build your own BlueSniper rifle.) Let’s see, we’ve got kids who think it’s a real hoot to drop things off overpasses onto cars, and I went to school with kids who built their own cannon out of pipe and tried to take down low flying aircraft by firing glass bottles at them with it, then there was the guy who thought he was a ninja and started a forest fire with his homemade smoke grenade. :rolleyes: Can you imagine the chaos which would occur if Bluetooth controlled cars became commonplace and juvenile deliquents like I used to know found out about it?

[even_sven]

But imagine how much fun it’d be to control nearby cars with your bluetooth enabled cellphone.

“Speed up, asshole…” zoom!

[Declan]

@Tuckerfan

[LINK] ‘Also, if you do not have the cables then the system is much more flexible to changes,’ she says.[/LINK]

Sounds like someone went to the same school, as the dude who thought up the ansewer , its not a bug ,its a feature.

Declan