How To Keep Your Car Safe, Digitally

The highly connected nature of the modern automobile requires several layers of cyber security to keep it safe from thieves and hackers alike.

All of us at Torque have just driven the latest Volkswagen Polo. This is currently the smallest car you can buy from VW.

But despite its size, it comes with an infotainment system incorporated with “App Connect” which you can use to mirror your smart phone of any brand.

There is no question that anyone who uses a smart phone (which is pretty much everyone) would like to have such a facility in his or her car.

After all, connectivity in this day and age is as essential as wiper blades.

Connecting your vehicle with your mobile phone is just a small part of the grand scheme. We are already familiar with the Global Positioning Systems, but the extent of automotive connectivity has no defined limits because the technology just keeps on moving.

The motor vehicle’s cyber link will extend on a large scale to include the road network, human traffic and most interestingly, other vehicles.

As with our personal computers and access to the Internet, there is a dark side of the technology that we could certainly do without.