The Mitsubishi Outlander is the latest new car to have been “hacked”.
The manufacturer is now advising owners to deactivate their on-board wifi to prevent potential thieves gaining access or altering settings until a fix is found by company.
About 45% of young people trust their dad’s advice on buying a car, says HPI.
Men are most likely to ask their dads, but mum’s word was only considered by 7% of those questioned.
Autonomous Emergency Braking is the single most important vehicle safety feature that should be adopted as standard equipment on all new cars on sale in the UK – this is a central message at Safer Vehicles 2016, a PACTS conference on 14 June in Westminster.
Currently more than half of all new cars on sale in the UK do not have AEB available, and only 21% are equipped with this vital safety technology as standard.