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At a conference where hackers can try their hands at picking locks and discover cyber vulnerabilities in a makeshift hospital, they can also endeavor to break into the control units of cars and take over driving functions.

Those efforts at the DEF CON security convention in Las Vegas, US, at the weekend, were sponsored by carmakers and suppliers that have increasingly recognized the need to collaborate with so-called white-hat hackers, cyber experts who specialize in discovering vulnerabilities to help organizations.

Attendees who visited the car hacking site had to escape a vehicle by deciphering the code to open its trunk,