{"id":4193,"date":"2014-10-21T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:59:06","slug":"production-cars-telemetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/production-cars-telemetry\/4193\/","title":{"rendered":"Production cars that allow you to race like in a video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The automotive industry tries hard to make the communication between a car and its owner as simple as possible. Today there are less and less dials on a dashboard; they have been replaced with messages in normal language, e.g. \u201cRefill windshield washer reservoir\u201d. Some modern models only have a large digital speedometer and a versatile onboard computer screen. However, there are people who are not fit for this kind of simplicity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/10\/05111710\/ferrari-telemetry-featured-1024x682-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6399 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/files\/2014\/10\/ferrari-telemetry-featured-1024x682-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"ferrari-telemetry-featured\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among them are owners of expensive sports cars, who use these cars for their original purpose, i.e. racing. Owners of, let\u2019s say, a Ferrari 458 Speciale or LaFerrari hybrid, must know a number of details regarding their turns and brakes. For this reason, Ferrari developed a special hardware kit and an iPad app, \u201cFerrari Telemetry,\u201d which implements roughly the same concept that is utilized by Scuderia in Formula 1 races.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-pullquote\"><p>Some production cars now feature a #Formula1 kind of telemetry<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkas.pr%2F5R85&amp;text=Some+production+cars+now+feature+a+%23Formula1+kind+of+telemetry\" class=\"btn btn-twhite\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/10\/05102740\/ferrari-telemetry-ss-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6400\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/10\/05102740\/ferrari-telemetry-ss-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"ferrari-telemetry-ss\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using Telemetry, these cars\u2019 components constantly report their status during the race, enabling a driver to use the app and discover any existing imperfections, e.g. suboptimal RPM selections or improper moments for braking. Basic information is transmitted wirelessly, but a full-scale analysis, accompanied by a dash-cam recording, is delivered by a wired iPad connected to the car. The application panels resemble many racing games of the GP kind, but there is one minor difference \u2015 all of this happens in real life, not in a simulation.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6awCshnWnI?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">Telemetry will emerge in mass market cars in order to assist a car owner via a special smartphone app.<\/div>\n<p>Of course, racing in six-digit priced cars is a very exotic sport, but the telemetry side of it is actually a part of a general trend \u2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/car_hacking_goes_mobile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">computers inside of any modern car are numerous and complex<\/a>, and they can enable the analysis and reporting of both a car\u2019s \u201chealth,\u201d and a driver\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Everything mentioned here will eventually be implemented into mass-market cars. Of course they won\u2019t bombard an owner with complex graphs, but they will send a message to his\/her smartphone that reads something like, \u201cDon\u2019t thrust too much after the traffic light at the first crossing near home, it leads to 20% more fuel consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/t-NH0Hv0BD\/<\/p>\n<p>To avoid any encounters with the dark side of such technologies, someone should start protecting automotive computers and telemetry. In the case of Ferrari, it has already happened. According to Ferrari\u2019s CIO, Vittorio Boero, the company has adopted the \u201csecuritization\u201d principle used in Formula 1 telemetry, for production cars. We understand the level of F1 IT security firsthand, as Kaspersky Lab developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/lk-ferrari-sochi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">special solutions to protect Scuderia Ferrari computers<\/a>. We can only hope that every car vendor will tackle the problem of securing cars using the same serious approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owners of certain expensive cars can analyze their driving skills in the same way F1 pilots do. 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