Hijacking cars and the reporters inside them

Cars going wild. Planes going wild. Trains going wild. Buses going wild.

Say, this seems obvious, but did anybody here connect
the more recent story about cracking and causing a digital automobile to go out of (the driver's) control,
with
that reporter who died in a crazy speeding (digital) automobile because he was tragically drugged drunk and so it couldn't possibly have been conspirators doing something fantastic like causing a digital automobile to go out of control only crazy tinfoil mad hatters could think such a thing?
Did they?