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Old 09-07-2012, 01:35 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Otto -- Google 'MIT wheel' It turns out the way to control something inside a spinning bike wheel is through Wi-Fi.
Hmmmm, that sounds dangerous in a car. Hackers could break into the wifi connection and mess with it. If feasible then the wheel would need to make "failsafe choices" on how to behave as a function of sensors that are independent of the wifi commands.

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