Dr. Steven Novella

And nobody even thinks of the car, that they're especially vulnerable to being monitored.

People who watch true crime do.

That's probably true.

How many different sensors do you think are in the, again, now we're talking recent modern car.

This is especially true, by the way, of EVs.

How many sensors that could monitor something about you are in your car?

Over 100.

There's all kinds of sensors in your car.

Like how you drive?

Yes.

Yeah, how hard you brake.

So there are cameras facing the driver.

Well, it depends on how old your car is.

Again, everything I say going forward is in a car that's like five years old or less, right?

Let me tell you some of the ways in which your car monitors you.

I'm going to start hitchhiking.

Here's the other reason why the car makes you so vulnerable, because all of these devices have a security justification.

In fact, the reason why this is a news item is because there are proposed laws to make some of these things mandatory under the justification that it will make driving safer.

Right.

So, for example, the driver-facing camera is ostensibly there to detect if you are sleepy or distracted or compromised, right, drunk or whatever.