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Cyberattacks on connected cars could gridlock entire cities

It would require taking over and stranding 20% of a city’s cars to freeze traffic, and only 10% to impede ambulances, physicists calculate.

Cybersecurity researchers have fooled the Tesla Model 3’s automatic navigation system into rapidly braking and taking a wrong turn on the highway.

They placed unobtrusive stickers that drivers wouldn’t see but would fool autopilot into thinking the lane was veering off to the left.