Tesla now has permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin testing the resilience of its robotaxis against cellular hacking. The company aims to "perform short-term testing of cellular vulnerabilities...and simulate [radio frequency] attacks on the vehicles to understand their resiliency to such attacks by malicious actors," according to the application. The company needs a permit because these signals are "outside Tesla's normal operational license area," Tesla says. The FCC's approval notice to Tesla says it must coordinate with spectrum owners if it wants to tap into their spectrum "within 50 miles of the contours of the testing area." That includes Verizon's 700MHz lower band and C-band and AT&T's Wireless Communications Service (WCS) spectrum. As Mike Dano, Lead Industry Analyst at Ookla, noted on LinkedIn, "it looks like [Tesla is] starting to worry about cellular attacks and hacks." Remote car hacks have been a concern for years, with or without a huma...