Why Autonomous Vehicles?
The technical capabilities of autonomous vehicles continue to
advance and impress. Features such as automated self-parking are
now blasé, making way for technology that enables vehicles
without steering wheels or pedals to be manufactured in
2019.1 During operation, autonomous and connected
vehicles generate and can record a significant amount of
information including driving input, speed, and direction. Vehicles
currently on the road may offer connected services for
communications and driver aids (e.g. camera rear-view mirror,
emergency braking, and reverse auto braking, etc.).
While impressive, these technologies (and the data creation that
comes with them) risk system exploitation, data breach and
product-wide issues. Researchers have already demonstrated the
ability to penetrate connected systems2 and the risks of
privacy breaches are all too well known. As increasing amounts of
information are recorded and stored by autonomous vehicles
