If you thought that, you are probably American, and therefore badly educated.

In most of the world, an engineer designs engines - and/or their control systems. (Whether petrol, steam, or electric - or even hydrogen).

dissolve Hyundai and 130,000 people lose their jobs because a criminal managed to break into a database?

No. Because the company collected the data in the first place. "In a database" is a place where criminals are likely to devote enormous resources to stealing it, and which they are unlikely to be able to protect adequately. On top of which, exactly 0 customers want their details to be stored.

Until the penalties for data loss exceed the value OF the firms (not just car companies)

FTFY

... Larry Ellison!

Clearly a problem world-wide.

Not so clear what to do about it, although education helps in some countries.

... is full of eels!

I cannot find anywhere how they collected this data or the methods they used to analyze it

I will let you into a secret ...
It was made up on the spot by "AI".

... you cannot send Guinness down an optical fibre at anything like the rate at which most civilised people would drink it!

Ought to be a crime under EU legislation!

... when they get it on an 8" floppy disk.

The preferred feature is "Nuke from high orbit"

... uncountable time and money!

One of the biggest advantages is that it drives support for standards:

If you sell a phone wihtout a USB cable. or supply USB cables without knowing which brand it will be used with,

You bloody well better comply with standards!