Infamous Jeep hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Vasalek have said that the state of self-driving vehicle security is surprisingly good, while presenting at the Black Hat security conference. Now employed by GM’s Cruise subsidiary, the pair are hoping to improve the collective capabilities of the industry, with Vasalek noting that an incident for a competitor will damage them too. The presentation, available here, is worth diving into. The key takeaways are that the industry has a unique opportunity to harden its systems while very few people have access to the code, ensuring that their systems will be better able to stand up to attack once released into the wild. This includes hardening the physical access to the vehicle’s subsystems, such…