Authorities in Denmark are urgently studying how to close an apparent security loophole in hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses that enables them to be remotely deactivated.
The investigation comes after transport authorities in Norway, where the Yutong buses are also in service, found that the Chinese supplier had remote access for software updates and diagnostics to the vehicles’ control systems – which could be exploited to affect buses while in transit
I wonder how this procurement was done, and who was responsible. Obviously, they never really checked the buses for security issues, or they where wrongly informed. How much will this investigation and updates cost, and would with hindsight, a different choice have been better and cheaper? If so, someone in procurement has been swayed, bought-off or was very misguided.