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So is a.j.'s speed his only problem? >> oh, [ bleep ]. >> or is he also distracted by his cell phone? see for yourself. >> what yare you doing? >> he takes a turn too fast and nearly loses control of the car. all the while his phone stays glued to his ear. >> he said he didn't use his cell phone, didn't plan on using his cell phone. he said it, i believed him. now he's given me a reason not to believe him. >> our final test driver is mitch, a professional go-cart racer. >> i've been driving go-carts probably about five years. >> he also told us he doesn't use his phone when he's driving. >> so...

Wire magazine had two hackers tap into remotely, not even in the vehicle, the console of in this case a jeep and take over the vehicle. so you see this pedometer starts to go crazy, this test driver ends up in a ditch. they are now saying they have a patch if you will. much like we talked about for years with computer operating systems or cell phones. this has prompted a dialogue around automated vehicles. they are increasingly high tech all brands. we have a list affected. they are recent models because that's -- vehicles are more automated than ever. this is a prelude to driverless vehicles ...

treed. jacob zuma will try to convince moammar gadhafi of peace talks. his rival and another fifa executive have been temporarily -- a coalition commander has offered his sincerest apologies for an air strike on saturday that he says killed nine people in afghanistan. and earlier toll according to afghan and nato forces was 14. hamid karzai condemned the strike. those are the headlines. "world business today" starts right now. good morning from cnn london. >> good afternoon from cnn hong kong. you're watching "world business today." here are our top stories for this monday, m...

Much better traction than anybody else. >> reporter: he has been porsche's senior test driver for the last 17 years. he made his name back in the '70s. 4 times world rally champion he won the monte carlo rally four times, success powered by a never ending quest for perfection >> i never said, oh, i am perfect. i always say, you want it, but 5,000 kilometers and two corners was not perfect. >> reporter: it's hard to explain what it is like when roehrl puts his foot down. it is about precision, speed, not the actual speed itself where every centimeter counts. >> the car is a part of my body like...

Be the driver? >> first of all we put the vehicle in the hands of a professional because of the risk that is involved in doing anything of this type, so the person who drives the vehicle, roger schuller, is a professional test driver and he has plenty of experience driving race kinds and all other vehicles jenna: jon could do it! >> it doesn't take any special skill in the sense that it's similar to the automobiles we drive. it would be curious to see whether jon has the nerve to actually do the 300 miles per hour! i think it takes a special kind of person. jon: i bet it does! this thing, it's...