> networked together
The manufacturer bears responsibility for misuse given the current state of the market; this is why markets exist, to trade information. If there is a genuine inability to communicate, then the market ceases to exist.
Open societies favor markets for a reason: communication, open lines of communication, and stable ones at that. There are all kinds of ways a computer virus can infect a system that is automatic; consider the possibility that a virus has infected an "autonomous" control system for a moving vehicle. A mechanical coupling usually makes this impossible, a steering wheel.