So they squeezed on safety helmets, booted up their laptops and inched toward the west track of Thunderhill Raceway in rural Willows. Poised behind the wheel at the starting line, Mr. Khan stared into a laptop balanced on his partner’s knees. “Although it might be an embarrassment.” The two men laughed off their nerves as Mr. Rojas initiated the car’s homegrown autonomous controls. Mr. Khan and Mr. Rojas, both software engineers, have been using evenings and weekends since last fall to hack the Kia. You need to get a car, and then you need to really mess with it,” Mr. Khan said with another laugh.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2019 09:00 UTC