{"id":23599,"date":"2016-03-16T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:56","slug":"we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz","title":{"rendered":"We Are Coming for You, Tesla, And You, Too, Google, Says Hacker Hotz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The legendary hacker <strong>George Hotz<\/strong>, known by his nom de guerre \u201c<strong>geohot<\/strong>,\u201d who first came to public attention by hacking <strong>Apple<\/strong>\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/public\/quotes\/main.html?symbol=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) first <strong>iPhone<\/strong>, spoke this morning at the South by Southwest conference about taking on <strong>Tesla<\/strong>\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/public\/quotes\/main.html?symbol=TSLA\">TSLA<\/a>) self-driving car initiatives with his own garage efforts, a talk titled \u201c<b>I built a better self-driving car than Tesla<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the talk, it was clear he had numerous targets, including <strong>Alphabet<\/strong>\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/public\/quotes\/main.html?symbol=GOOGL\">GOOGL<\/a>) self-driving car efforts, despite mighty respect for the search giant.<\/p>\n<p>Hotz\u2019s achievement, rigging up home made parts to an <strong>Acura ILX<\/strong> to make it self-driving, first came to prominence with <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2015\/12\/16\/mobileye-drops-6-as-citron-calls-short-of-year-following-bloomberg-article\/\" target=\"_self\">an article in mid-December<\/a> by <strong>Bloomberg<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Ashlee Vance. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2016\/03\/14\/we-are-coming-for-you-tesla-and-you-too-google-says-hacker-hotz\/\">http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2016\/03\/14\/we-are-c...cker-hotz\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary hacker George Hotz, known by his nom de guerre \u201cgeohot,\u201d who first came to public attention by hacking Apple\u2019s (AAPL) first iPhone, spoke this morning at the South by Southwest conference about taking on Tesla\u2019s (TSLA) self-driving car initiatives with his own garage efforts, a talk titled \u201cI built a better self-driving car [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67992,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions\/67992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}