The driver, Abdulrahman al Ghamdi, drove off and was pursued by the police at speed before losing control of the car and dying in the crash.

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If the CAN bus can be programmed to control the speed of your car, Freymann says, it could also be vulnerable to hackers -- which, at 70 mph, is chilling to contemplate.

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Say just one car's stability-control system is activated at an unusually slow speed on a highway off-ramp.

CNN: Behold the?all-seeing, self-parking, safety-enforcing, networked car

Authorities said the man then lost control of his car after he was shot and died when his car collided at high speed with a truck.

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