What’s terrifying about it? Those are closed off systems hat provide exactly the user interface they are supposed to do. It’s not like they would run arbitrary code or are in any way modifiable by end users.
I’ve worked in Adobe air based infotainment systems 10 years back, and it was a great technology. Actionscript3/MXML was at that time far more advanced than JavaScript. It took maybe another 5 years and typescript and react to catch up.
Cars aren't closed systems. They have bluetooth/wifi.
Increasing the attack surface on a vehicle security is negligence which can easily result in loss of property and life.
Ah, yes, those closed off systems that are usually exploitable because no one designing them thinks about security... as shown by decision like using Flash.
At least in the projects I’ve been involved with a lot of thoughts went into system design and security. The flash layer is really just a user interface. It renders nothing else than whatever UI code was developed. To interact with other components in the car (whether it’s adjusting temperature or playing back music) it makes IPC calls to services which are responsible for that. So even media playback and potential associated security issues won’t have anything to do with the UI. It’s no better or worse security wise than if you would do the UI in QT or any of the proprietary frameworks that had been used before. It just provided way better tooling and graphical capabilities.
I’ve worked in Adobe air based infotainment systems 10 years back, and it was a great technology. Actionscript3/MXML was at that time far more advanced than JavaScript. It took maybe another 5 years and typescript and react to catch up.