there might be something in this story


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...ota-Prius.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23487928

 

I'm not going to say its impossible because I'm far from an expert in the CANBUS systems and coms in a car but it would be very easy to fake out an unsuspecting journalist too.

It's a standard feature for most diagnostics systems to be able to do an active test. This is where you drive an actuator to show it works as expected. Fairly straightforward to be able to push the signal in through the OBD to get it to behave as you want. In fact I know someone who did it for us as a demonstration part.

 

Nope.
The tech didn't plug into anything to operate the car.
It was done from his van. The car was still secured with the keys in the boot.

 

Such James-Bondery features in the novel 'Borgward Lebt' by the motoring journalist, Andreas S Berse a few years back.

I'm not surprised such telemetrics are upon us in high-end cars now.

 

Isn't it simply the Mercedes Benz MBrace App the MB tech' used to open the car?

 

mbrace is a USA only thing. But it must be some similar telematics.
He appeared to be reloading firmware for 20min after breaking into the car though.
All very hush-hush and wouldn't let me watch even parked the van across the view from the office.

 

So did your car emit bluetooth by default on the obd channel? It must have done.

 

Maybe there was a fail safe on your car and he had to reset? A lockdown mode

Anyway, in the original story they had hardware in the car.

We'll all revert to 67 Mustangs

 

I can't but think it ain't that hard to hide a Bluetooth "transmitter' (attached to the OBD port) on most cars without the owner / driver noticing....

 

It's hard to get in another's car though in order to do so, and arguably, if you can get in, then why the need for a BT transmitter, you're in.

Sound's very non story. But I can't make sense of M1bjr's story - how did that work without any access, hence the 'do mercs squirt out a bt/wifi/some type of wirless connection' question.