[JonyRR]

There are legitimate issues with fly-by-wire control input devices.
In fairness, all mfg'rs go to great lengths to guard against spurious input signals ('uncommanded control input') that can and do affect the electronics in question.
It IS really uncharted territory, still, as the transition from purely mechanical to 'interpreted' control of one's surroundings is made a reality.
With a purely mechanical control input systems, the variables are relatively few and simple to understand. Add an 'interpreter' or 'decision maker' into the control between man and machine and you have a universe's level increase in complexity and potential variables. Which requires a whole new way of looking at, identifying, and fixing issues.
We are now in the middle of a fundamental transition in the way we interface with our world on every level.
Your life is increasingly run, in detail, by something that only exists when the electricity is on and I personally feel this has not been examined or debated enough.
Wait til the first vehicle-specific-CPU virus hits after the OEM tech flashes the CPU with the latest update. (now THERE'S and industrial-espeonage scenario for you) I can't tell you WHEN that will happen but I'm sure it WILL happen.
Wait till you have a cpu chip buried in you that tell all the nanobots floating in your bloodstream chewing up the plaque in your arteries how to function.
wait till the virus that's xmited to that cpu as part of it's monitoring process gets written. the bots just chew thru an artery instead of the plaque.
onstar already tracks you everywhere you go.
airbag data records the last 30 seconds of many vehicle parameters...available to the prosecution.
my point is it's a new world...again, with new and evolving hazards. Better..worse...who knows. The dangers do not lessen, they just change..