President is planing to announce his response against Russia for meddling through hacking in the U.S. presidential election. This act is expected to trigger avalanche of many unknowns even as Russia has challenged Obama to go ahead as they promised to respond in kind.

In a statement, Intel Security’s chief technology officer, Steve Grobman, warned about the unintended consequences of any plans to retaliate, including inciting actual war.

“The administration, fellow lawmakers, and general public must understand the potentially catastrophic consequences of a digital cyber conflict escalating into a kinetic, conventional shooting war,” Grobman said. “Impacting digital infrastructure beyond the intended target opens the door to draw additional nation states into a conflict. This increases risk to civilian populations as countries see the need to retaliate or escalate.”

It is expected that U.S. could attack Russia’s internet infrastructure.  If that happens, the chance of full-blown cyber-warfare will happen.

Nevertheless, Grobman urged U.S. officials to tighten security around the nation’s digital election systems. 

“We strongly encourage any effort to expand the definition of the country’s digital infrastructure to include the nation’s election systems,” he said in a statement. “We usually consider critical infrastructure to include life-sustaining services such as water, power, transportation, and first responder communications. But, given that election systems are the foundational organs of democracy, we must protect them accordingly.”

The business of transportation is being redesigned. It is all over us with Uber and peers changing what it means to move from one location to another.

It does seem that the business of making cars may not be a profitable one in the far future. So car manufacturers are diversifying.

Volkswagen has bought PayByPhone, a company that lets drivers pay for parking using their mobile phones. Volkswagen says it plans to bundle PayByPhone’s capabilities with other mobile payment services into a separate business built around parking.

Earlier this month, Volkswagen launched a digital business division called Moia that will offer, among other services, an on-demand shuttle for commuters living in urban areas in an aim to expand beyond its traditional focus of making and selling cars.

Just note that when it comes to transportation, no one can predict what will happen next. The sector is experiencing many new transformations beginning with the pioneering Uber business model.

Tesla is simply fascinating and will become a bigger company than Apple in 10 years. There is no doubt about that. They have a real engineering marvel that will make that market success possible.

Tesla’s super-sensory autopilot system might be able to predict a collision and react faster than a human driver, a new dash-cam video suggests, using radar technology that allows it to see what we cannot.

Original video, authorisation from the owner. Essential, no one could predict the accident but the radar did and acted by emergency braking. pic.twitter.com/70MySRiHGR

— Hans Noordsij (@HansNoordsij) December 27, 2016

The video, first reported by tech site Electrek, shows a highway in the Netherlands stretching before a moving Tesla. Eight seconds in, a rapid beeping sound is followed by a car rear-ending an SUV, which then flips over on impact.

CNBC reports that the company has confirmed that that the sound heard in the video, which was shared on Twitter more than a thousand times, was in fact the vehicle’s Forward Collision Warning.

What do you call anti-predictive collision? That is reality.