MOSCOW, June 21-RIA Novosti. Self-driving cars will be able to become full-fledged road users in five to ten years, current communication technologies are vulnerable to hacking and do not allow this, Dmitry Peskov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of digital and technological development, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"For example, hackers broke into a website-of course, this is bad, but not disastrous. And imagine that 100 thousand drones will be hacked at the same time," he explained.
According to Peskov, this requires the development of quantum communication, the communication lines of which are securely encrypted.
"If the technology is tested, then in five-seven-ten years we will come to the point where we can safely release self-driving cars on the streets of cities. They will be so secure that it will be physically impossible to hack them – because any hacking leads to a change in the signal. You can break this connection, but you will not be able to crack it, " the special representative of the president added.
Quantum communication lines, unlike traditional ones, allow you to transfer large amounts of data at high speed. Moreover, the transmitted information is securely encrypted, since it is based on the technology of encoding and transmitting data in the quantum states of photons. The laws of physics do not allow us to measure the quantum state so that it does not change, so it is impossible to listen to the quantum communication channel unnoticed by the recipients.